Type: Canadian Mackenzie class destroyer
Builder: Burrard Dry Dock & Shipbuilding
Laid Down: 25 Oct 1959
Launched: 27 July 1961
Commissioned: 25 May 1963
Length: 366 feet
Height: 70 feet + signal mast
Beam: 42 feet
Decks: 8
Displacement: 2380 tons
Main Machinery: 2 English
Electric geared turbines; 30000 shp; 2 shafts. 2 Babcock and Wilcox water
tube boilers
Speed, knots: 28
Range, miles: 4750 at 14 knots
Complement: 210 (11 officers)
Guns: 2 Vickers 3 in (76 mm)/70
Mk 6 mounting (twin)(1) 90 degree elevation; 90 rounds/minute to 17 km
(9 nm) weight of shell 7 kg. 2 FMC 3 in (76 mm)/50
Mk 33 mounting (twin) (second mounting fwd in Qu'Appelle)
(2); 85 degree
elevation; 50 rounds/minute to 12.8 kn (7 nm); weight
of shell 6 kg.
Torpedoes: 6-324 mm Mk 32
(2 triple) tubes (3) Honeywell Mk 46; anti-submarine; active/passive
homing to 11 km (6 nm) at 40 knots; warhead 44 kg.
Countermeasures ESM: WLR 1; radar
warning.
Fire control: GFCS Mk 69.
GFCS Mk 63. Litton ADLIPS; automated tactical data handling; Links 11
and 14.
Radars: Air search: Raytheon
SPS 10 (4); D band;range 119 km (65 nm) Surface search: Raytheon SPS 10
(5); G band. Fire control: SPG 48 (6); I/J band. SPG
34; I/J band
Sonars: Westighouse SQS 505;
combined VDS and hull-mounted; active search and attack; medium frequency.
SQS 501; hull-mounted; bottom target classification; high frequency
Programmes: Officially classified
as DD
Modernisation: All modernised
at Esquimalt by Burrard/Yarrow Inc under Delex (Destroyer Life Extension
Programme) 1982-85 including improved sonar and communications to SPS 12
radar. Extension until 1990-93.
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