HMCS Restigouche (DDE 257)

HMCS Restigouche under way in 1983
History
Canada
Name	Restigouche
Namesake	Restigouche River
Builder	Canadian Vickers, Montreal
Laid down	15 July 1953
Launched	22 November 1954
Commissioned	7 June 1958
Decommissioned	31 August 1994
Identification	257
Motto	Rester droit ("Steer a straight course")[1]
Nickname(s)	"Rusty Guts"
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1939–45 North Sea 1940 Mediterranean 1943 Normandy 1944 Biscay 1944[1]
Fate	Sunk off Mexico in 2001 15°00′00″N 95°00′00″W / 15.00000°N 95.00000°W / 15.00000; -95.00000
Badge	Blazon Or, the head of a five pronged fish-spear erect, azure.[1]
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Restigouche-class destroyer
Displacement	2800 tonnes (deep load)
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power	2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Propulsion	2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines,
Speed	28 knots (51.9 km/h)
Range	4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)
Complement	249
Sensors and processing systems	1 × SPS-12 air search radar 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar 1 × SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar 1 × SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar 1 × SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar 1 × SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar 1 × Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward GUNAR Mk.64 GFCS with on-mount SPG-48 director aft
Electronic warfare & decoys	1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)
Armament	1 × 3-inch/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward 1 × 3-inch/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount aft 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes

HMCS Restigouche was the lead ship of the Restigouche-class destroyers that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. Commissioned in 1958, Restigouche remained in service until 1994. She was sold for use as an artificial reef, however controversy arose over her acquisition and instead she was scuttled off the coast of Mexico in 2001. She was the second Canadian warship to carry the name HMCS Restigouche.