HMCS Terra Nova

HMCS Terra Nova at Pearl Harbor in 1986
History
Canada
NameTerra Nova
NamesakeTerra Nova River
BuilderVictoria Machinery Depot, Victoria
Laid down11 June 1953
Launched21 June 1955
Commissioned6 June 1959
Decommissioned11 July 1997
Refit
  • 1968 (IRE)
  • 9 November 1984 (DELEX)
  • August–September 1990 (Persian Gulf)
HomeportCFB Halifax
IdentificationHull number: DDE 259
MottoTenax propositi ("Do not falter")[1]
Honours and
awards
Gulf and Kuwait, 1991
FateSold for scrap, 2009
BadgeGules, 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 typeRestigouche-class destroyer
Displacement2800 tonnes (deep load)
Length366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Speed28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range4,750 nautical miles (8,800 km; 5,470 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
ComplementAs 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.

  1. ^ a b Arbuckle, p. 120