HMS Crusader (H60)

HMCS Ottawa before 1942
History
United Kingdom
NameCrusader
Ordered15 July 1930
BuilderPortsmouth Dockyard
Laid down12 September 1930
Launched30 September 1931
Completed2 May 1932
IdentificationPennant number: H60
Motto
  • Non nobis Domine
  • ("Not under us, Lord")
FateTransferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, 15 June 1938
BadgeOn a Field Black, a Shield silver, thereon a cross Red
Canada
NameOttawa
NamesakeOttawa River
Commissioned15 June 1938
Honours and
awards
Atlantic, 1939–45
FateSunk by U-91, 14 September 1942
General characteristics
Class and typeC-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard)
  • 1,865 long tons (1,895 t) (deep)
Length329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement145
Armament

HMS Crusader was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. She saw service in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets and spent six months during the Spanish Civil War in late 1936 in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Crusader was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1938 and renamed HMCS Ottawa. She was initially deployed on the Canadian Pacific Coast before World War II, but was transferred to the Atlantic three months after the war began. She served as a convoy escort during the battle of the Atlantic until sunk by the German submarine U-91 on 14 September 1942. Together with a British destroyer, she sank an Italian submarine in the North Atlantic in November 1941.