HMCS Nootka (R96)

HMCS Nootka (centre) in 1951
History
Canada
Name:	Nootka
Namesake:	Nuu-chah-nulth people
Ordered:	April 1941
Builder:	Halifax Shipyards, Halifax
Laid down:	20 May 1942
Launched:	26 April 1944
Commissioned:	9 August 1946
Decommissioned:	6 February 1964
Identification:	R96 (1946-1949) 213 (1950-1964)
Motto:	Tikegh mamook solleks (Ready to fight)
Honours and awards:	Korea, 1951-1952
Fate:	Scrapped at Faslane, Scotland in 1965.
Notes:	Colours are white and royal blue.
Badge:	Azure, in base barry wavy of four argent and azure, a killer whale (Orca) proper rising from the sea.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement:	2,200 tons
Length:	355 ft 6 in (108.36 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
Draught:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Complement:	259
Armament:	1946-1949 as R96 3 × twin 4.7 in (119 mm) guns 1 × twin 4 in (102 mm) guns 4 × 2-pounder guns 6 × 20 mm guns 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1950-1964 as DDE 213 2 × twin 4-inch guns 1 × twin 3 in (76 mm) guns 4 × 40 mm guns 1 × quadruple 21-inch torpedo tubes 2 × Squid anti-submarine mortar

HMCS Nootka was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 to 1964. She saw service in the Korean War. She received the unit name Nootka while still under construction in Halifax after the RCN renamed the Fundy-class minesweeper HMCS Nootka (J35) to HMCS Nanoose (J35) in 1943.

Nootka was ordered in April 1941. She was laid down on 20 May 1942 by Halifax Shipyards at Halifax, Nova Scotia and launched 26 April 1944. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 7 August 1946 at Halifax. She was the sixth Tribal-class destroyer to serve and the second Canadian-built.

After commissioning, Nootka served as a training ship for the Atlantic Fleet. She was one of the ships assigned to take part in Operation Scuttled, the training exercise designed to sink U-190, the U-boat that had surrendered to the Royal Canadian Navy at the end of the Second World War. However before Nootka and her fellow ships could find the range on the submarine, the aircraft of the Naval Air Arm successfully attacked the vessel and sank her. In September 1948, she joined HMCS Magnificent and HMCS Haida on a training cruise to the Ungava peninsula in Quebec. There the two destroyers left the aircraft carrier and toured the north, visiting Churchill, Manitoba, becoming the first RCN warships to penetrate Hudson Bay. She remained as a training vessel until her conversion to a destroyer escort after being paid off on 15 August 1949.