Skeena 1960
Fraser 1980
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| St. Laurent | DDE205 | Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 22.11.1950 | 30.11.1951 | 29.10.1955 | paid off 6.1974, sold 1979 | |
| Saguenay | DDE206 | Halifax SY | 4.4.1951 | 30.7.1953 | 15.12.1956 | paid off 6.1990, sold 1990 | |
| Skeena | DDE207 | Burrard, Vancouver | 1.6.1951 | 19.8.1952 | 30.3.1957 | paid off 11.1993, sold 1996 | |
| Ottawa | DDE229 | Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 8.6.1951 | 29.4.1953 | 10.11.1956 | paid off 7.1992, sold 1992 | |
| Margaree | DDE230 | Halifax SY | 12.9.1951 | 29.3.1956 | 5.10.1957 | paid off 5.1992, BU 1994 | |
| Fraser | DDE233 | Burrard, Vancouver | 11.12.1951 | 19.2.1953 | 28.6.1957 | paid off 10.1994, BU 2011 | |
| Assiniboine | DDE234 | Marine Industries, Sorel | 19.5.1952 | 12.2.1954 | 16.8.1956 | paid off 12.1988, harbour TS 1989 |
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Displacement standard, t |
2000 |
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Displacement full, t |
2600 |
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Length, m |
111.6 wl 113.1 oa |
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Breadth, m |
12.8 |
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Draught, m |
4.20 |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 sets English Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
30000 |
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Max speed, kts |
28 |
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Fuel, t |
oil |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
4570(12) |
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Armament |
2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Boffin, 2 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASW RL |
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Electronic equipment |
SPS-10, SPS-12, SPG-48 radars, SQS-501, SQS-502, SQS-503 sonars |
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Complement |
290 |
Project history: In the late 1940s there was a pressing NATO requirement for anti-submarine vessels, and funds were voted for seven destroyer escorts or frigates for the RCN. The British Whitby design was still on the drawing-boards and as the USN had nothing which met the exacting RCN Staff Requirement it was decided to design a new class of ship in Canada. Using the services of the Montreal naval architects, German & Milne, and under the direction of a senior constructor, Rowland Baker, seconded from the Director of Naval Construction, work started in 1949. Baker produced a design basically similar to the Whitby, but incorporating several ideas of his own. The machinery was identical with the British ships and St Laurent's was in fact imported from the UK, but electronics and electrical gear were of American and Canadian design. To flatter Canadian susceptibilities, Baker was careful to make the appearance as different as possible from the Whitby, but the ship which resulted was virtually a Type 12 specification (albeit with a different hull form) translated by a different design team.
Modernizations: 1963, St. Laurent, Assiniboine; 1964, Ottawa; 1965, Saguenay, Skeena, Margaree; 1966, Fraser: one funnel was replaced by twin uptakes; - 1 x 2 - 76/50, 2 x 1 - 40/60, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL; + 1 CHSS-2 Sea King helicopter, hangar, helicopter deck, SQS-504 VDS sonar
1979, Assiniboine; 1980, Saguenay, Margaree; 1981, Skeena; 1982, Ottawa, Fraser: + WLR-1 ECM suite
Naval service: No significant events.
Assiniboine 1980
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