HMCS Terra Nova

HMCS Terra Nova at Pearl Harbor in 1986
History
Canada
Name	Terra Nova
Namesake	Terra Nova River
Builder	Victoria Machinery Depot, Victoria
Laid down	11 June 1953
Launched	21 June 1955
Commissioned	6 June 1959
Decommissioned	11 July 1997
Refit	1968 (IRE) 9 November 1984 (DELEX) August–September 1990 (Persian Gulf)
Homeport	CFB Halifax
Identification	Hull number: DDE 259
Motto	Tenax propositi ("Do not falter")[1]
Honours and awards	Gulf and Kuwait, 1991
Fate	Sold for scrap, 2009
Badge	Gules, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, debruised with a cross of the second charged with a penguin erect proper[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)
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	As built: 249
Sensors and processing systems	1 × SPS-503 air search radar 1 × SPS-502 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 1 × 103 mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers

HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259) was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959 until 1997. After her final refit, she was a guided missile destroyer.

She was the sixth ship of her class and the first Canadian war ship to bear the name Terra Nova. The ship's badge honours the Terra Nova River on Newfoundland as well as an earlier civilian ship, Terra Nova, which gained fame during a scientific exploration voyage to Antarctica. They are represented as a river and the Antarctic (symbolized by a penguin) on the ship's badge.