HMCS Margaree (DDH 230)

HMCS Margaree 1990
History
Canada
Name	Margaree
Namesake	Margaree River
Builder	Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Laid down	12 September 1951
Launched	29 March 1956
Commissioned	5 October 1957
Decommissioned	2 May 1992
Reclassified	15 October 1965 (as DDH)
Identification	Pennant number: 230
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1940[1]
Fate	Scrapped in 1994.
Badge	Azure, three cotises wavy argent, over all a flower of the Marguerite (daisy) proper.[1]
General characteristics
Type	St. Laurent-class destroyer escort
Displacement	As DDE: 2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load) As DDH: 2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load)[3]
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	As DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m)[2] As DDH:14 ft (4.3 m)[3]
Propulsion	2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 22,000 kW (30,000 shp)
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[2]
Range	4,570 nautical miles (8,463.6 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement	As DDE: 249 As DDH: 213 plus 20 aircrew
Sensors and processing systems	As DDE: 1 × SPS-12 air search radar 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar 1 × SQS-10 or −11 hull mounted active search and attack sonar 1 × SQS-501 (Type 162) high frequency bottom profiling sonar 1 × SQS-502 (Type 170) high frequency Limbo mortar control sonar 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 2 on-mount SPG-48 directors) As DDH: 1 × SPS-12 air search radar 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar 1 × URN 20 TACAN radar 1 × SQS-10 or −11 hull mounted active search and attack sonar 1 × SQS-501 (Type 162) high frequency bottom profiling sonar 1 × SQS-502 (Type 170) high frequency Limbo mortar control sonar 1 × SQS-504 VDS, medium frequency active search (except 233 after 1986) 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 1 on-mount SPG-48 director)
Electronic warfare & decoys	As DDE: 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder) As DDH: 1 × WLR 1C radar warning 1 × UPD 501 radar detection 1 × SRD 501 HF/DF
Armament	As DDE: 2 × 3 in (76 mm) Mk.33 FMC twin mounts guns 2 × 40 mm "Boffin" single mount guns 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes As DDH: 1 × 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount gun 1 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar 2 × triple Mk.32 12.75 inch launchers firing Mk.44 or Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft carried	As DDH: 1 × CH-124 Sea King
Aviation facilities	As DDH: 1 × midships helicopter deck with Beartrap and hangar

HMCS Margaree was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1957–1992. She underwent conversion to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in the mid-1960s and was officially reclassed with pennant DDH 230 on 15 October 1965. The vessel served until 1992 when it was discarded, sold for scrap and broken up in 1994.