HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Kootenay.
HMCS Kootenay was a Restigouche-class destroyer escort that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces from 1959 until 1996. She was the fifth ship in her class and the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Kootenay. The ship suffered two serious incidents in her career: a 1969 explosion and ensuing fire that killed nine, and a 1989 collision that required the complete replacement of her bow. Following her service, the ship was sunk as an artificial reef.
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HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258) at Pearl Harbor in 1986 | |
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Canada | |
Name | Kootenay |
Namesake | Kootenay River |
Builder | Burrard Dry Dock Ltd., North Vancouver |
Laid down | 21 August 1952 |
Launched | 15 June 1954 |
Commissioned | 7 March 1959 |
Decommissioned | 18 December 1995 |
Refit |
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Motto | We are as one[1] |
Honours and awards |
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Fate | Sunk as an artificial reef off Mexico in 2001. |
Badge | Argent, three cotises in bend wavy azure, over all a crescent sable debruised by an Indian fish spear-head gules, bound around the hilt with thongs argent[1] |
General characteristics (As built) | |
Class and type | Restigouche-class destroyer |
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Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range | 4,750 nautical miles (8,800 km; 5,470 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 249 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder) |
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