HMCS Athabaskan (DDH 282)
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| Image:Athabaskan DDH 282.jpg | |
| Career | Image:Rcnjack.png |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | mid 1960s |
| Laid down: | June 1, 1969 |
| Launched: | November 27, 1970 |
| Commissioned: | November 30, 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | N/A |
| Fate: | N/A |
| Struck: | N/A |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5120 tonnes |
| Length: | 129.9 m |
| Beam: | 15.7 m |
| Draught: | 6.9 m |
| Propulsion: | two shafts, two Pratt & Whitney FT4-A2 gas turbines (37 megawatts at the shaft), two Allison 570-KF gas turbines (5.6 megawatts at the shaft) |
| Speed: | over 27 knots (50 km/h) |
| Range: | 4500 nm (8300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 314 |
| Armament: | one 29-cell VLS (Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA), one 76 mm/62 OTO Melara (Super Rapid) DP, 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, 1 20 mm Close-In Weapons Systems, two triple Mark-46 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes. |
| Aircraft: | 1 CH-124 Sea King helicopter - 1 crashed February 2, 2006 off Denmark |
| Motto: | We Fight as One |
HMCS Athabaskan (DDH 282) is an Iroquois class destroyer of the Canadian Navy. It is the third destroyer to bear that name. On September 2, 2005, the ship was sent to the devastated U.S. Gulf Coast to assist disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. See Canadian response to Hurricane Katrina for more information.
See HMCS Athabaskan for other ships of this name.
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