Royal Canadian Navy - Destroyer
R 96 / DDE 213 - HMCS Nootka
Type, Class:		Destroyer - DD / UK Tribal - class later converted to a Destroyer Escort - DDE
Builder:		Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
STATUS:		Ordered: June 1941 Laid down: May 20, 1942 Launched: April 26, 1944 Commissioned: August 7, 1946 (as R 96) paid off: August 15, 1949 refitted and converted to a Destroyer Escort recommissioned: January 1950 (as DDE 213) Decommissioned: February 6, 1964 Fate: sold for scrap; scrapped in Faslane, Scotland in 1965
Homeport:		-
Namesake:		The Nuu-chah-nulth also formerly referred to as the Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Nuuchahnulth, are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada.
Ship’s Motto:		TIKEGH MAMOOK SOLLEKS (ready to fight)
Technical Data: (Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)		see: INFO > UK Tribal - class Destroyer
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HMCS Nootka (R 96 / DDE 213): HMCS Nootka served as a training ship for the Atlantic Fleet until her conversion to a destroyer escort after being paid off on 15 August 1949. During the conversion to DDE, her 4.7 inch guns were replaced with 4 inch guns and the Y mounting was removed and 2 triple-barrelled Mark IV Squids were installed. She also received 2 Boffin gun mounts and a single 40mm Bofors on a twin 20mm Oerlikon-powered mounting. She received the new pennant DDE 213 in January 1950 and departed Halifax for Korea in December 1950, transiting the Panama Canal for the first of two tours of duty in the Korean War. She returned to Halifax via the Mediterranean Sea at the end of 1952, having become the second RCN warship to circumnavigate the globe; HMCS Quebec (C66) having been the first. Nootka underwent further conversion and modernization in 1953-1954 and resumed training duties with the Atlantic Fleet. She participated in the massive RCN deployment for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962; Nootka was assigned a patrol area off the northern tip of Cuba during the crisis. In summer 1963, Nootka joined her sister ship HMCS Haida (G63) for a tour of the Great Lakes. Her last deployment was for a NATO exercise in Bermuda in fall 1963 where she sustained hull damage while docking in strong winds. She was temporarily patched and returned to Halifax and was decommissioned at Halifax on 6 February 1964. She was scrapped at Faslane, Scotland in 1965.
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