| HMCS Saguenay (DDH 206) | |
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| Career (Canada) |   |
| Namesake: | Saguenay River |
| Builder: | Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax |
| Laid down: | 4 April 1951 |
| Launched: | 30 July 1953 |
| Commissioned: | 15 December 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 June 1990 |
| Reclassified: | 14 May 1965 (as DDH) |
| Motto: | A 1'erte (Ready to act) |
| Honours and awards: | Atlantic 1939-42 |
| Fate: | Sold in 1990 and scuttled as an artificial reef off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. |
| Badge: | Blazon Sable, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, surmounted by an Indian's head facing sinister and couped at the shoulder proper having a fillet gules about the temples, depending there from, tips downward, four feathers of the second pied of the last, and pendant from the ear an annulet silver. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | St. Laurent-class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
As DDE: 2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load)[1] As DDH: 2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load)[2] |
| Length: | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
| Beam: | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
| Draught: |
As DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m)[3] As DDH:14 ft (4.3 m)[4] |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock and Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp |
| Speed: | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[5] |
| Range: | 4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)[6] |
| Complement: |
As DDE: 249 |
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HMCS Saguenay (DDH 206) was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956-1990.
She is the second vessel in her class and the second Canadian naval unit to carry the name HMCS Saguenay.
Saguenay was laid down on 4 April 1951 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and launched on 30 July 1953. She was commissioned into the RCN on 15 December 1956 and assigned pennant number 206.
Saguenay underwent conversion from a destroyer escort (DDE) to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in the mid-1960s and was officially reclassed on 14 May 1965. She was subsequently selected by the Canadian Forces for the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) project and completed this refit on 23 May 1980.
Saguenay was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 26 June 1990.
She was sold to the South Shore Marine Park Society which scuttled her in 1994 as an artificial reef in Lunenburg Bay, off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Commanding officers[]
- Cdr. G.H. Hayes 1956-1958 (commissioning CO)
- Lt.Cdr J.C. Wood 1965-1966
- Cdr. R.D. Yanow 1969-1970
- Cdr. J. Harwood
- Cdr. T. Milne
- Cdr. A. J. Goode 1978-1980
- Cdr. E.E. 'Ted' Davie
- Cdr. J.M. Barlow 1981-1984
- Cdr. K.C.E Bernard 1984-1987
- Cdr. R.I. Clayton 1987-1989
- Cdr. E. Lerhe 1989-1990
Assignments[]
- Third Escort Squadrom 1953-1959 - Halifax
- Second Escort Squadron 1959-1965 - Esquimalt
- First Escort Squadron 1965-1971
- Fifth Escort Squadron 1971-1990
References[]
- ↑ These were "officially revised figures" quoted in Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
Conways says 2000 tons standard displacement, 2600 deep load.
Combat Fleets of the World 1978-79 says 2390 tons displacement, 2900 full load. - ↑ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
- ↑ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
- ↑ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
- ↑ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
- ↑ Combat Fleets of the World 1978-79
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