HMCS Nipigon (DDH 266)

HMCS Nipigon was an Annapolis-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. She was the second Canadian naval unit to carry this name. Entering service in 1964, she was named for the Nipigon River that flows through Ontario.

For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Nipigon.

HMCS Nipigon underway during NATO Exercise Ocean Safari '85.
History
Canada
NameNipigon
NamesakeNipigon River, Ontario
Ordered1958
BuilderMarine Industries Ltd., Sorel
Laid down5 August 1960
Launched10 December 1961
Commissioned30 May 1964
Decommissioned2 July 1998
Refit22 August 1984 (DELEX)
Motto"We are one"
Honours and
awards		Atlantic 1940–45, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, 1944.
FateSunk for an artificial reef north-east of Rimouski, Quebec in 2003.
BadgeGules, in a base a bar fesswise wavy argent charged with a like barrulet azure, out of which leaping two trout or, one to the dexter chief the other to the sinister chief.
General characteristics
Class and typeAnnapolis-class destroyer
Displacement3,420 long tons (3,474.9 t) full load
Length366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught23.5 ft (7.2 m)
Propulsion
  • 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines
  • 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Speed28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement228
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Original:
  • 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-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar
  • 1 × SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar
  • 1 × SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 x SQS-11B hull mounted active scanning sonar
  • 1 × SQS-504 VDS medium frequency active search sonar
  • 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone
  • 1 × Mk 64 GFCS fire control with SPG-48 tracker (GUNAR)
  • DELEX:
  • 1 × Marconi SPS-503 air search radar
  • 1 × Raytheon/Sylvania SPS-502 surface search radar
  • 1 × Sperry Mk.127E navigation radar
  • 1 × URN 25 TACAN radar
  • 1 × SQS-510 hull mounted active search sonar
  • 1 × SQR-19(V) ETASS towed array sonar
  • 1 × UQC-1B "Gertrude" underwater telephone
  • 1 × Mk 64 GFCS fire control with SPG-515 tracker
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • Original:
  • 1 × ULQ-6 jammer
  • 1 × WLR-1C radar analyzer
  • 1 × UPD-501 radar detector
  • 1 × SRD-501 HF/DF
  • DELEX:
  • 1 × SLQ-501 intercept (CANEWS)
  • 1 × ULQ-6 jammer
  • 1 × SRD-501 HF/DF
Armament
  • Original:
  • 1 × FMC 3-inch/50 Mk.33 twin
  • 1 × Mk. NC 10 Limbo ASW mortar
  • 1 × Mk.4 thrower with homing torpedoes
  • DELEX:
  • 1 × FMC 3-inch/50 Mk.33 twin
  • 2 × triple Mk.32 12.75-inch torpedo tubes firing Mk.44 or Mk.46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft carried1 CH-124 Sea King ASW helicopter
Aviation facilitiesMidships helicopter deck and hangar with Beartrap.

Nipigon served throughout the Cold War on the Atlantic coast of Canada. She was paid off in 1998 and sold for use as an artificial reef off the coast of Quebec.

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