HMCS Restigouche (DDE 257)
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| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy Canadian Forces Maritime Command |
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| Namesake: | Restigouche River |
| Builder: | Canadian Vickers, Montreal |
| Laid down: | 15 July 1953 |
| Launched: | 22 November 1954 |
| Commissioned: | 7 June 1958 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 August 1994 |
| Fate: | Sunk off Mexico in 2001 as an artificial reef. |
| Badge: | Blazon Or, the head of a five pronged fish-spear erect, azure. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Restigouche class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
As built: 2800 tons (deep load) After IRE: 2900 tons (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 |
| Speed: | 28 knots (51.9 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,750 nautical miles (8,797.0 km) at 14 knots (25.9 km/h) |
| Complement: |
As built: 249 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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After IRE:
After DELEX:
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| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
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| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: | none |
HMCS Restigouche (DDE 257) was a Restigouche-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1958-1994.
She was the lead ship of her class, having been commissioned into the RCN on 7 June 1958 carrying the pennant number DDE 257 as a destroyer escort.
Restigouche was selected by the Canadian Forces for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) program and completed this refit in 1972. She was also selected as one of 10 destroyers in the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) program and completed this refit on 29 November 1985.
Restigouche was selected to participate as part of the Canadian Forces contribution in the Gulf War in 1991. She was refitted at Esquimalt, British Columbia; however the war finished before her refit was completed. She had her Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher and her Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars removed and was fitted with 8 X Harpoon anti-ship missles and a (CIWS) Close In Weapons System.
Restigouche did not participate in the Gulf War in 1991; however, the ship did participate in a Multinational Interception Force (MIF) in the Northern Red Sea in 1992. During the Red Sea deployment Restigouche completed an Eastbound circumnavigation of the globe sailing from Esquimalt to Esquimalt via the Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Atlantic Ocean, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
She was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 31 August 1994.
She was sunk as an artificial reef off Acapulco, Mexico in 2001.
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