HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259)

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Career (Canada) Canadian Blue Ensign Royal Canadian Navy
Naval flag of Canada Canadian Forces Maritime Command
Namesake: Terra Nova River
Builder: Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd., Victoria
Laid down: 11 June 1953
Launched: 21 June 1955
Commissioned: 6 June 1959
Decommissioned: 11 July 1997
Refit: 1968 (IRE)
9 November 1984 (DELEX)
August-September 1990 (Persian Gulf)
Homeport: CFB Halifax
Honours and
awards:		 Persian Gulf and Kuwait, 1991
Fate: Laid up at CFB Halifax.
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Restigouche-class destroyer
Displacement: As built: 2,800 t (2,800.0 MT) (deep load)
After IRE: 2,900 t (2,900.0 MT) (deep load)
Length: As built: 366 feet (111.6 m)
After IRE: 371 feet (113.1 m)
Beam: 42 feet (12.8 m)
Draught: 14 feet (4.3 m)
Propulsion: 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
Range: 4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
Complement:

As built: 249

After IRE/DELEX: 214
Sensors and
processing systems:

As built:

  • 1 x SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 x SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
  • 1 x SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
  • 1 x SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward
  • GUNAR Mk.64 GFCS with on-mount SPG-48 director aft

After IRE:

  • 1 x SPS-12 air search radar
  • 1 x SPS-10B surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
  • 1 x SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
  • 1 x SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x SQS-10 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x AQA-5 Jezebel passive tracer sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-48 director forward

After DELEX:

  • 1 x Marconi SPS 502 air search radar
  • 1 x Raytheon SPS 10D surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.127 E navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-505 hull sonar
  • 1 x SQS 505 VDS sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-515 director forward

After Gulf War:

  • 1 x Marconi SPS 502 air search radar
  • 1 x Raytheon SPS 10D surface search radar
  • 1 x Sperry Mk.127 E navigation radar
  • 1 x SQS-505 hull sonar
  • 1 x SQS-505 VDS sonar
  • 1 x C-Tech mine avoidance sonar
  • 1 x Mk.69 gunnery control system with SPG-515 director forward
Electronic warfare
and decoys:

As built:

  • 1 x DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder)

After IRE:

  • 1 x ULQ-6 jammer
  • 1 x WLR-1C radar analyzer
  • 1 x UPD-501 radar detector
  • 1 x SRD-501 HF/DF

After DELEX:

  • 1 x CANEWS
  • 1 x ULQ-6 jammer

After Gulf War:

  • 1 x CANEWS
  • 1 x ULQ-6 jammer
  • 1 x ALR-74 threat warning
Armament:

As built:

  • 1 x 3"/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 1 x 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount aft
  • 2 x Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 x single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes
  • 1 x 103 mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers

After IRE/DELEX:

  • 1 x 3"/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 1 x Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher
  • 1 x Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars
  • 2 x Mk.32 triple torpedo launchers firing Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes

After Gulf War:

  • 1 x 3"/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward
  • 2 x Harpoon quad SSM launchers
  • shoulder launched Blowpipe and Javelin SAMs
  • 1 x Phalanx 20 mm CIWS
  • 2 x 40mm/60 Bofors guns
  • 6 x .50-cal machine guns
  • 2 x Mk.32 triple torpedo launchers firing Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft carried: none

HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259) was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959-1997.

She was the sixth ship of her class and the first Canadian war ship to bear the name HMCS Terra Nova. The ship honours the Terra Nova River in Newfoundland as well as an earlier civilian ship the Terra Nova, which gained fame during a scientific exploration voyage to Antarctica. Both the river and the Antarctic (symbolized by a penguin) are featured on the ship's badge.

Terra Nova was laid down on 11 June 1953 at Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd., Victoria and launched on 21 June 1955. She was commissioned into the RCN on 6 June 1959 with the pennant number 259.

Terra Nova was selected by the Canadian Forces for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) project and completed this refit in 1968. She was also selected as one of 10 destroyers in the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) project and completed this refit on 9 November 1984.

[edit] Operation FRICTION

Terra Nova was selected in August 1990 for deployment with Operation FRICTION, the CF contribution to Operation DESERT STORM (the Gulf War). She had her Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher and her Mk.NC10 Limbo ASW mortars removed and was fitted with 8 X Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a Phalanx close-in weapon system (CIWS).

Terra Nova was deployed with the Canadian Naval Task Group, led by flag ship HMCS Athabaskan and the supply ship HMCS Protecteur. The Task Group was assigned to the international coalition maritime interdiction force in the central Persian Gulf which was comprised of a variety of coalition naval forces on station through the fall of 1990. After Operation DESERT STORM began in January, the Canadian Naval Task Group undertook escort duties for hospital ships and other vulnerable coalition naval vessels.

[edit] Decommissioning

Terra Nova was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 11 July 1997.

After being paid off Terra Nova appeared, cast as an American destroyer, in the movie K-19: The Widowmaker.

In December 2007 there was discussion about sinking Terra Nova for a diving attraction in the St. Lawrence River near Brockville, Ontario.

As of 2008 she remains laid up at CFB Halifax.

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