HMCS Saguenay (DDH 206)

	HMCS Saguenay underway in 1981
History
Canada
Name	Saguenay
Namesake	Saguenay River
Builder	Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax
Laid down	4 April 1951
Launched	30 July 1953
Commissioned	15 December 1956
Decommissioned	26 June 1990
Reclassified	14 May 1965 (as DDH)
Identification	Pennant number: 206
Motto	A 1'erte (Ready to act)
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1939–42
Fate	Sold in 1990 and scuttled as an artificial reef off Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
Badge	Sable, a bend wavy argent charged with two like cotises azure, surmounted by an Indian's head facing sinister and couped at the shoulder proper having a fillet gules about the temples, depending there from, tips downward, four feathers of the second pied of the last, and pendant from the ear an annulet silver.
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 Saguenay was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956–1990. She was the second vessel in her class and the second Canadian naval unit to carry the name HMCS Saguenay. After being discarded by the Canadian Forces, the ship was sunk as an artificial reef off the coast of Nova Scotia.

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