HMCS Chaudiere (DDE 235)
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For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Chaudiere.
| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Forces Maritime Command |
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| Namesake: | Chaudiere River |
| Builder: | Halifax Shipyards, Halifax |
| Laid down: | 30 July 1953 |
| Launched: | 13 November 1957 |
| Commissioned: | 14 November 1959 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 May 1974 |
| Fate: | Placed in Category "C" reserve in 1974. Used as parts hulk 1988-1989 for HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258). Sunk as artificial reef off British Columbia in 1992. |
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| Class and type: | Restigouche class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2800 tons (deep load) |
| Length: | 366 feet (111.6 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 |
| 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 |
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| Aircraft carried: | none |
HMCS Chaudiere (DDE 235) was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959-1974.
She was commissioned into the RCN on 14 November 1959 carrying the pennant number DDE 235 as a destroyer escort.
Chaudiere was not selected for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) or Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) programs and was instead decommissioned from active service in the CF on 23 May 1974. She was placed in Category C reserve and in 1988 she reverted to a parts hulk, with part of her bow being used in 1989 to repair her sistership HMCS Kootenay (DDE 258).
She was sunk as an artificial reef off British Columbia in 1992.
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