HMCS Gatineau (DDE 236)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Gatineau.
HMCS Gatineau was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces during the Cold War from 1959 to 1996. She was the third ship in her class and the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Gatineau. She was sold for scrapping in 2009.
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HMCS Gatineau underway in 1983 | |
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Name | Gatineau |
Namesake | Gatineau River |
Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
Laid down | 30 April 1953 |
Launched | 3 June 1957 |
Commissioned | 17 February 1959 |
Decommissioned | 24 May 1996 |
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Homeport | CFB Halifax |
Identification | DDE 236 |
Motto | "In hoc catino postestas" (In this ship lies power)[1] |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1943–44, Normandy 1944[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, October 2009 |
Badge | Vert, a bend wavy argent charged with two cotises bendlets azure, debruised with a sun in splendour or which is charged with a beaver sable.[1] |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | Restigouche-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2800 t (deep load) |
Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 28 knots (51.9 km/h) |
Range | 4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h) |
Complement | 249 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder) |
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