HMCS Crusader (R20)
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HMCS Crusader underway
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Crusader |
| Ordered: | 12 September 1942 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company |
| Laid down: | 15 November 1943 |
| Launched: | 4 October 1944 |
| Identification: | Pennant number R20 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Canada 1945, permanently in 1951 |
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Canada
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| Name: | Crusader |
| Acquired: | 26 November 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 26 November 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 January 1960 |
| Identification: | R20/228 |
| Motto: | By this sign we conquer. |
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Korea, 1952–53 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1964 |
| Badge: | Azure, a crusader's shield bearing in the first canton a maple leaf gules for Canada |
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| Class and type: | C-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1730 tonnes |
| Length: | 326.75 ft (99.59 m) |
| Beam: | 35.66 ft (10.87 m) |
| Draught: | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
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| Complement: | 14 officers, 230 crew |
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HMCS Crusader was a C-class destroyer originally ordered by the Royal Navy in 1942 and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1946. During the Korean War she was the leading ship in the legendary Trainbuster's Club, destroying five North Korean trains in total. She was sold for scrap in 1964.
The C-class destroyer was designed in four groups, Crusader being part of the fourth, or "Cr", group. This group was ordered as the 14th Emergency Flotilla, a group of destroyers based on the machinery of the J-class destroyers.
For fire control, the class used the Fuze Keeping Clock High Angle Fire Control Computer. The "Cr" group was fitted with the new Mk VI HA/LA Director while remote power control (RPC) gunlaying equipment was fitted. The additional weight of the new fire control equipment and the powered mountings for the 4.5 inch guns meant that only one quadruple torpedo mount was fitted, and the depth charge armament was reduced to 35 depth charges. Most of the ships were fitted with a single Hazemayer Bofors mount, although some of the later ships instead had the lighter and simpler Mk V twin Bofors mount. They also introduced the all-welded hull into Royal Navy destroyer construction, with the "Cr" flotilla all being of all-welded construction. Late delivery of the Mk VI directors delayed completion such that none of the "Cr"s entered service before the end of the Second World War.
The class were all fitted with two Admiralty 3-drum boilers with a pressure of 300 pounds per square inch (2,100 kPa) at 630 °F (332 °C). All had Parsons single-reduction geared turbines, generating 40,000 shaft horsepower (30,000 kW) at 350 RPM, and driving the two shafts to produce a maximum of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) (32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) under full load condition).
Their bunkers could hold 615 tons of oil fuel, giving them a radius of 4,675 nautical miles (8,658 km; 5,380 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) and 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph).
Crusader was ordered on 12 September 1942 as part of the 14th Emergency Flotilla of the War Emergency Programme. The hull was laid down on 15 November 1943 by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and launched on 5 October 1944.
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