HMCS Skeena (DDH 207)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Skeena.
HMCS Skeena was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1957–1993. Skeena was constructed as a destroyer escort and was converted in the 1960s to a helicopter-carrying destroyer. In 1972, the ship was designated a French Language Unit, the second in Canadian service.[5] Discarded in 1994, the ship was broken up in India.
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HMCS Skeena (DDH 207) in 1957 | |
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Name | Skeena |
Namesake | Skeena River |
Builder | Burrard Yarrows, Vancouver |
Laid down | 1 June 1951 |
Launched | 19 August 1952 |
Commissioned | 30 March 1957 |
Decommissioned | 1 November 1993 |
Reclassified | 14 August 1965 (as DDH) |
Homeport | Halifax, Nova Scotia (as DDH) |
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Motto | "En Avant"[1] |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1939–44, Normandy 1944, Biscay 1944[1][2] |
Fate | Scrapped in 1996. |
Badge | Azure, out of a base invected argent, a salmon sinisterwise proper[1] |
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Type | St. Laurent-class destroyer escort |
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Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
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Propulsion | 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 22,000 kW (30,000 shp) |
Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[4] |
Range | 4,570 nautical miles (8,463.6 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
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