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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Saguenay.
History
Canada
NameSaguenay
NamesakeSaguenay River
OperatorRoyal Canadian Navy
BuilderHalifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax
Laid down4 April 1951
Launched30 July 1953
Commissioned15 December 1956
Decommissioned26 June 1990
Reclassified14 May 1965 (as DDH)
Identificationpennant number: 206
MottoA 1'erte (Ready to act)
Honours and
awards		Atlantic 1939-42
FateSold in 1990 and scuttled as an artificial reef off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
BadgeBlazon 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 and typeSt. Laurent-class destroyer
DisplacementAs DDE:

2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load)[note 1]

As DDH:

2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load)[1]
Length366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
DraughtAs DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m)[2] As DDH:14 ft (4.3 m)[3]
Propulsion2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock and Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp
Speed28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[4]
Range4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)[5]
Complementlist error: <br /> list (help)
As DDE: 249
As DDH: 213 plus 20 aircrew
Sensors and
processing systems		list error: mixed text and list (help)
As DDE:
  • 1 × SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 × SQS-10a hull mounted active search and attack sonar "Scanner"
  • 1 × SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiling sonar "Tracer"
  • 1 × Type 170 high frequency attack sonar "Attacker"
  • 1 × SQS 503 hull mounted search sonar "Searcher"
  • 1 × UQC-1B underwater telephone "Gertrude"
  • 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 2 on-mount SPG-48 directors)

As DDH:

  • 1 × SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 × URN 20 TACAN radar
  • 1 × SQS-10a hull mounted active search and attack sonar "Scanner"
  • 1 × SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiling sonar "Tracer"
  • 1 × Type 170 high frequency attack sonar "Attacker"
  • 1 × SQS 503 hull mounted search sonar "Searcher"
  • 1 × UQC-1B underwater telephone "Gertrude"
  • 1 × SQS-504 VDS, medium frequency active search "Diver"(except 233 after 1986)
  • 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 1 on-mount SPG-48 director)
Electronic warfare
& decoys		list error: mixed text and list (help)
As DDE:
  • 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)

As DDH:

  • 1 × WLR 1C radar warning
  • 1 × UPD 501 radar detection
  • 1 × SRD 501 HF/DF
Armamentlist error: mixed text and list (help)
As DDE:
  • 2 × 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mounts guns
  • 2 × 40mm "Boffin" single mount guns
  • 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes

As DDH:

  • 1 × 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount gun
  • 1 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar
  • 2 × triple Mk.32 12.75 inch launchers firing Mk.44 or Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft carriedlist error: mixed text and list (help)
As DDE:
  • none

As DDH:

HMCS Saguenay 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 Royal Canadian Navy 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 (first from right) underway in a Standing Naval Force, Atlantic group in 1982.

Saguenay was decommissioned from active service in the Canadian Forces 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

Notes
  1. ^ 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.
Footnotes
  1. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
  2. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
  3. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1992-93, p84.
  4. ^ Janes Fighting Ships 1963-64
  5. ^ Combat Fleets of the World 1978-79
Sources
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