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UK Tribal class Destroyer Escort - DD / DDE

 

Tribal class destroyer escort Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Athabaskan Haida Huron Iroquois Nootka Micmac Cayuga

“4 of a kind” - Tribal class DDE’s (from left: DDE-214 HMCS Micmac, DDE-219 HMCS Athabaskan, DDE-213 HMCS Nootka, DDE-218 HMCS Cayuga)

 

 

Ships:

unit

builder

commissioned

status

G 07 HMCS Athabaskan

Vickers Armstrong, U.K.

1943

lost in action in April 1944

G 63 / DDE 215 HMCS Haida

Vickers Armstrong, U.K.

1943

museum ship - Hamilton, Ontario

G 24 / DDE 216 HMCS Huron

Vickers Armstrong, U.K.

1943

sold for scrap, scrapped

G 89 / DDE 217 HMCS Iroquois

Vickers Armstrong, U.K.

1942

sold for scrap, scrapped

R 96 / DDE 213 HMCS Nootka

Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Canada

1946

sold for scrap, scrapped

R 10 / DDE 214 HMCS Micmac

Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Canada

1945

sold for scrap, scrapped

R 04 / DDE 218 HMCS Cayuga

Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Canada

1947

sold for scrap, scrapped

R 79 / DDE 219 HMCS Athabaskan

Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Canada

1947

sold for scrap, scrapped

 

NOTES:

all units were refitted and converted to Destroyer Escorts (DDE) between 1949 and 1954

 

UK built units were built by Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

and engined by Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Corp., Wallsend, U.K.

 

Canadian built units were built by Halifax Shipyard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

and engined by John Inglis, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

 

Specifications:

 

Length:

114,90 meters

 

Beam:

11,40 meters, forward / 4,6 meters, aft

 

Draft:

3,40 meters

 

Displacement:

1930 tons (standard) / 2800 tons (full load)

 

Speed:

36,5 knots, max. (68 km/h)

 

Range:

5700 NM (10500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) / 1700 NM (3150 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)

 

Crew:

260 (DD) / 240 (DDE)

 

Aviation:

none

 

Propulsion:

2 steam turbines, 2 boilers / 2 shafts, 2 propellers / 44000 shp

 

Armament:

 

UK Tribal class destroyer HMCS Royal Canadian Navy armament

 

class images:

 

Tribal class destroyer escort Royal Canadian Navy

Tribal class DDE

 

UK Tribal class destroyer escort Royal Canadian Navy

Tribal class DDE - note the enclosed Mk-33 gun,aft

 

HMCS Athabaskan G-07 Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

G 07 HMCS Athabaskan (I)

 

DDE-213 HMCS Nootka R-96 Tribal class destroyer RCN

DDE-213 HMCS Nootka (ex R 96)

 

DDE-214 R-10 HMCS Micmac UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

DDE-214 HMCS Micmac (ex R 10)

 

DDE-215 HMCS Haida Tribal class destroyer G-63 Royal Canadian Navy

DDE-215 HMCS Haida (ex G 63)

 

HMCS Huron DDE-216 G-24 Tribal class destroyer RCN

DDE-216 HMCS Huron (ex G 24)

 

HMCS Iroquois DDE-217 G-89 UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

DDE-217 HMCS Iroquois (ex G 89)

 

R-04 DDE-218 HMCS Cayuga Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

DDE-218 HMCS Cayuga (ex R 04)

 

DDE-219 R-79 HMCS Athabaskan Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

DDE-219 HMCS Athabaskan (II) (ex R 79)

 

 

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