HMCS Restigouche (DDE 257)

HMCS Restigouche under way in 1983
History
Canada
Name:	Restigouche
Namesake:	Restigouche River
Builder:	Canadian Vickers, Montreal
Laid down:	15 July 1953
Launched:	22 November 1954
Commissioned:	7 June 1958
Decommissioned:	31 August 1994
Identification:	257
Motto:	Rester droit ("Steer a straight course")
Nickname(s):	"Rusty Guts"
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1939–45 North Sea 1940 Mediterranean 1943 Normandy 1944 Biscay 1944
Fate:	Sunk off Mexico in 2001 15°00′00″N 95°00′00″E / 15.00000°N 95.00000°E / 15.00000; 95.00000Coordinates: 15°00′00″N 95°00′00″E / 15.00000°N 95.00000°E / 15.00000; 95.00000
Badge:	Blazon Or, the head of a five pronged fish-spear erect, azure.
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Restigouche-class destroyer
Displacement:	2800 tonnes (deep load)
Length:	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam:	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Installed power:	2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines,
Speed:	28 knots (51.9 km/h)
Range:	4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h)
Complement:	249
Sensors and 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 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

Sunk off Mexico in 2001

HMCS Restigouche was the lead ship of the Restigouche-class destroyers that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. Commissioned in 1958, Restigouche remained in service until 1994. She was sold for use as an artificial reef, however controversy arose over her acquisition and instead she was scuttled off the coast of Mexico in 2001. She was the second Canadian warship to carry the name HMCS Restigouche.

Based on the preceding St. Laurent-class design, the Restigouches had the same hull and propulsion, but different weaponry. Initially the St. Laurent class had been planned to be 14 ships. However the order was halved, and the following seven were redesigned to take into improvements made on the St. Laurents. As time passed, their design diverged further from that of the St. Laurents.

The ships had a displacement of 2,000 tonnes (2,000 long tons), 2,500 t (2,500 long tons) at deep load. They were designed to be 112 metres (366 ft) long with a beam of 13 metres (42 ft) and a draught of 4.01 metres (13 ft 2 in). The Restigouches had a complement of 214.

The Restigouches were by powered by two English Electric geared steam turbines, each driving a propellor shaft, using steam provided by two Babcock & Wilcox boilers. They generated 22,000 kilowatts (30,000 shp) giving the vessels a maximum speed of 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).