HMCS Terra Nova
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HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259) was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959 until 1997. After her final refit, she was a guided missile destroyer.
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HMCS Terra Nova at Pearl Harbor in 1986 | |
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Canada | |
Name | Terra Nova |
Namesake | Terra Nova River |
Builder | Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd., Victoria |
Laid down | 11 June 1953 |
Launched | 21 June 1955 |
Commissioned | 6 June 1959 |
Decommissioned | 11 July 1997 |
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Homeport | CFB Halifax |
Identification | Hull number: DDE 259 |
Motto | Tenax propositi ("Do not falter")[1] |
Honours and awards | Gulf and Kuwait, 1991 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 2009 |
Badge | Gules, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, debruised with a cross of the second charged with a penguin erect proper[1] |
General characteristics (As built) | |
Class and type | Restigouche-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2800 tonnes (deep load) |
Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Propulsion | 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW) |
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 | As built: 249 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder) |
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She was the sixth ship of her class and the first Canadian war ship to bear the name Terra Nova. The ship's badge honours the Terra Nova River on Newfoundland as well as an earlier civilian ship, Terra Nova, which gained fame during a scientific exploration voyage to Antarctica. They are represented as a river and the Antarctic (symbolized by a penguin) on the ship's badge.