HMCS Assiniboine (DDH 234)

	HMCS Assiniboine (DDH 234) in 1986
History
Canada
Name	Assiniboine
Namesake	Assiniboine River
Builder	Marine Industries, Sorel
Laid down	19 May 1952
Launched	12 February 1954
Commissioned	16 August 1956
Decommissioned	14 December 1988
Reclassified	28 June 1963 (as DDH)
Identification	234
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1939–45, Biscay 1944, English Channel 1944–45
Fate	Sank in 1995 in the Caribbean Sea while under tow to breakers.
Badge	Or, a bend wavy azure charged with two cotises wavy argent, over all a bison's head caboshed proper.
General characteristics
Type	St. Laurent-class destroyer escort
Displacement	As DDE:; 2263 tons (normal), 2800 tons (deep load); As DDH:; 2260 tons (normal), 3051 tons (deep load);
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	As DDE: 13 ft (4.0 m); As DDH:14 ft (4.3 m);
Propulsion	2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 22,000 kW (30,000 shp)
Speed	28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)
Range	4,570 nautical miles (8,463.6 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement	As DDE: 249; As DDH: 213 plus 20 aircrew;
Sensors and ; processing systems	As DDE:; 1 × SPS-12 air search radar; 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar; 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar; 1 × SQS-10 or −11 hull mounted active search and attack sonar; 1 × SQS-501 (Type 162) high frequency bottom profiling sonar; 1 × SQS-502 (Type 170) high frequency Limbo mortar control sonar; 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone; 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 2 on-mount SPG-48 directors); As DDH:; 1 × SPS-12 air search radar; 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar; 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar; 1 × URN 20 TACAN radar; 1 × SQS-10 or −11 hull mounted active search and attack sonar; 1 × SQS-501 (Type 162) high frequency bottom profiling sonar; 1 × SQS-502 (Type 170) high frequency Limbo mortar control sonar; 1 × SQS-504 VDS, medium frequency active search (except 233 after 1986); 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone; 1 × GUNAR (Mk.64 GFCS with 1 on-mount SPG-48 director);
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	As DDE:; 1 × DAU HF/DF (high frequency direction finder); As DDH:; 1 × WLR 1C radar warning; 1 × UPD 501 radar detection; 1 × SRD 501 HF/DF;
Armament	As DDE:; 2 × 3 in (76 mm) Mk.33 FMC twin mounts guns; 2 × 40 mm "Boffin" single mount guns; 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars; 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes; As DDH:; 1 × 3"/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount gun; 1 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar; 2 × triple Mk.32 12.75 inch launchers firing Mk.44 or Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes;
Aircraft carried	As DDH:; 1 × CH-124 Sea King;
Aviation facilities	As DDH:; 1 × midships helicopter deck with Beartrap and hangar;

HMCS Assiniboine was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956 to 1988. She was the second ship to bear the name. Entering service in 1956, the ship underwent conversion to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in 1962, the conversion performed primarily by Victoria Machinery Depot. She was officially reclassed with pennant DDH 234 on 28 June 1963. After being paid off in 1988, the vessel was used as a harbour training ship until being discarded in 1995. The vessel sank under tow to the breakers that year.

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