Destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy
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| History |
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  Canada |
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| Name | Ottawa |
| Namesake | Ottawa River |
| Builder | Canadian Vickers, Montreal |
| Laid down | 8 June 1951 |
| Launched | 29 April 1953 |
| Commissioned | 10 November 1956 |
| Decommissioned | 31 July 1992 |
| Reclassified | 21 October 1964 (as DDH) |
| Identification | DDH 229 |
Honours and
awards | Atlantic 1939–45, Normandy 1944, English Channel 1944, Biscay 1944[1] |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1994. |
| Badge | Gules, a bend wavy argent charged with two cotises wavy azure over all a beaver or, the sinister forepaw resting on a log of silver birch proper.[1] |
| General characteristics |
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| Type | Destroyer escort |
| Displacement |
- As DDE:
- 2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load)
- As DDH:
- 2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load)[2]
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| Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
| Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
| Draught |
- As DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m)[3]
- As DDH:14 ft (4.3 m)[2]
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| 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)[3] |
| 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
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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)
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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
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| 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
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| Aircraft carried | |
| Aviation facilities |
- As DDH:
- 1 × midships helicopter deck with Beartrap and hangar
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HMCS Ottawa (DDH 229) was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956 to 1992. Ottawa was the first bilingual ship to serve in the Canadian navy.[4]
- ^ a b Arbuckle, p. 83
- ^ a b Sharpe, p. 84
- ^ a b Blackman, 1964
- ^ Macpherson and Barrie (2002), p. 248
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