HMCS Chaudière (DDE 235)

History
Canada
Name	Chaudière
Namesake	Chaudière River
Builder	Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax
Laid down	30 July 1953
Launched	13 November 1957
Commissioned	14 November 1959
Decommissioned	23 May 1974
Identification	DDE 235
Motto	La fortune sourit aux braves (Fortune smiles on the brave)
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1944 ; Normandy 1944; Biscay 1944;
Fate	Sunk as artificial reef off British Columbia in 1992.
Badge	Vert, three cotises in bend wavy or, debruised in the center with a plate voided, the inner edge evicted.
General characteristics
Class and type	Restigouche-class destroyer
Displacement	2,800 t (2,800 long tons; 3,100 short tons) (deep load)
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	14 ft (4.3 m)
Propulsion	2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers ; 30,000 shp (22,000 kW);
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	4,750 nautical miles (8,800 km; 5,470 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	214
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; 1 × 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; 1 × 103 mm Bofors illumination rocket launchers;

HMCS Chaudière was a Restigouche-class destroyer and the second vessel of her class that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959 to 1974. She was the second Canadian naval unit to bear this name. During the summer of 1974 she along with her sister ship HMCS Columbia served as the base of operations for the Esquimalt Sea Cadet Camp while being docked at the DND jetty in Colwood. This location was across the harbour from the main site of CFB Esquimalt. Following the vessel's decommissioning, the ship was used as a source for spare parts for the other surviving members of her class. In 1991, Chaudière was sold for use as an artificial reef and sunk off the coast of British Columbia.

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