HMCS Saskatchewan (DDE 262)

HMCS Saskatchewan was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces. She was the second Canadian naval unit to bear the name HMCS Saskatchewan. The ship was named for the Saskatchewan River which runs from Saskatchewan to Manitoba in Canada.

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

HMCS Saskatchewan in 1963
History
Canada
NameSaskatchewan
NamesakeSaskatchewan River
Ordered1957
BuilderVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd., Victoria
Laid down29 October 1959
Launched1 February 1961
Commissioned16 February 1963
Decommissioned28 March 1994
Refit1985–86 (DELEX)
IdentificationDDE 262
Motto"Ready and confident"
Honours and
awards		Atlantic 1943–44, Normandy 1944, Biscay 1944
FateSold in 1997 to the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia Scuttled off Nanaimo on 14 June 1997.
BadgeVert, a bend wavy argent charged with a like bendlet gules, and over all a garb, or
General characteristics
Class and typeMackenzie-class destroyer
Displacement2,880 t (2,830 long tons) full load
Length366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Installed power
  • 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts
  • 2 × English-Electric geared steam turbines
Speed28 kn (51.9 km/h; 32.2 mph)
Complement228 regular, 170–210 training
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-11 hull mounted active search sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • 1 × DAU (replaced by SRD 501) high frequency direction finder
  • 1 × WLR 1C radar analyzer
  • 1 × UPD 501 radar detector
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 launcher

Entering service in 1963, she was mainly used as a training ship on the west coast. She was decommissioned in 1994 and sold for use as an artificial reef. She was sunk as such in June 1997 off British Columbia.

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