HMCS St. Croix (DDE 256)

HMCS St. Croix arriving at CFB Esquimalt in August 1964
History
Canada
Name	St. Croix
Namesake	St. Croix River
Builder	Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel
Laid down	15 October 1954
Launched	17 November 1957
Commissioned	4 October 1958
Decommissioned	15 November 1974
Homeport	CFB Esquimalt
Identification	DDE 256
Motto	"Stand, fight, yield not"[1]
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1940–43[1]
Fate	Disposed and broken up in 1991.
Badge	Argent, a cross wavy azure charged with a similar one argent issuing from between the arms of the cross saltirewise four maple leaves, gules[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Restigouche-class destroyer
Displacement	2,800 tonnes (2,800 long tons; 3,100 short tons) (deep load)
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion	2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	4,750 nautical miles (8,800 km; 5,470 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	214
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 St. Croix was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1958 to 1974. The fourth ship commissioned in the class, she was the second ship to bear the name. Following her decommissioning, the ship was used as a training ship at Halifax, Nova Scotia until 1991, when St. Croix was sold for scrapping.