HMCS Gatineau (DDE 236)

HMCS Gatineau underway in 1983
History
Canada
NameGatineau
NamesakeGatineau River
BuilderDavie Shipbuilding, Lauzon
Laid down30 April 1953
Launched3 June 1957
Commissioned17 February 1959
Decommissioned24 May 1996
Refit
  • 14 April 1971 (IRE)
  • 12 November 1982 (DELEX)
HomeportCFB Halifax
IdentificationDDE 236
Motto"In hoc catino postestas" (In this ship lies power)
Honours &
awards		Atlantic 1943–44, Normandy 1944
FateSold for scrapping, October 2009
BadgeVert, a bend wavy argent charged with two cotises bendlets azure, debruised with a sun in splendour or which is charged with a beaver sable.
General characteristics (as built)
Class & typeRestigouche-class destroyer
Displacement2800 t (deep load)
Length366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion
  • 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines
  • 2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Speed28 knots (51.9 km/h)
Range4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)
Complement249
Sensors &
processing systems
  • 1 × SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 × SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
  • 1 × SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
  • 1 × SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 × SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 × Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward
  • 1 × GUNAR Mk.64 GFCS with on-mount SPG-48 director aft
Electronic warfare
& decoys		1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)
Armament
  • 1 × 3-inch/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 1 × 3-inch/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount aft
  • 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes
  • 1 × 103 mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers

HMCS Gatineau was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces during the Cold War from 1959 to 1996. She was the third ship in her class and the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Gatineau. She was sold for scrapping in 2009.

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