HMCS Ottawa (H60)

History
HMCS Ottawa before 1942
United Kingdom
Name:	Crusader
Ordered:	15 July 1930
Builder:	Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down:	12 September 1930
Launched:	30 September 1931
Completed:	2 May 1932
Identification:	Pennant number: H60
Motto:	Non nobis Domine ("Not under us, Lord")
Fate:	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, 15 June 1938
Badge:	On a Field Black, a Shield silver, thereon a cross Red
Canada
Name:	Ottawa
Namesake:	Ottawa River
Commissioned:	15 June 1938
Honours and awards:	Atlantic, 1939–45
Fate:	Sunk by U-91, 14 September 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	C-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard) 1,865 long tons (1,895 t) (deep)
Length:	329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam:	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught:	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power:	36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	145
Armament:	4 × 1 – QF 4.7-inch Mk IX guns 1 × 1 – QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun 2 × 1 – QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 – 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes

HMS Crusader was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. She saw service in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets and spent six months during the Spanish Civil War in late 1936 in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Crusader was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1938 and renamed HMCS Ottawa. She was initially deployed on the Canadian Pacific Coast before World War II, but was transferred to the Atlantic three months after the war began. She served as a convoy escort during the battle of the Atlantic until sunk by the German submarine U-91 on 14 September 1942. Together with a British destroyer, she sank an Italian submarine in the North Atlantic in November 1941.

Crusader displaced 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) at standard load and 1,865 long tons (1,895 t) at deep load. The ship had an overall length of 329 feet (100.3 m), a beam of 33 feet (10.1 m) and a draught of 12 feet 6 inches (3.8 m). She was powered by Parsons geared steam turbines, driving two shafts, which developed a total of 36,000 shaft horsepower (27,000 kW) and gave a maximum speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). Steam for the turbines was provided by three Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers. Crusader carried a maximum of 473 long tons (481 t) of fuel oil that gave her a range of 5,500 nautical miles (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). The ship's complement was 145 officers and men.

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