HMCS Saguenay (D79)
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| Technical specifications | ||
| Ship type : | destroyer | |
| Displacement : | 1,337 ts standard | |
| Length: | 97.53 m | |
| Width: | 9.91 m | |
| Draft : | 3.20 m | |
| Drive : | 3 Thornycroft-3-drum boilers 2 Parsons - steam turbines with single transmission 32,000 hp (22,526 kW ) |
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| Fuel supply: | 380 t of heating oil | |
| Speed: | 35 kn (64.8 km / h ) | |
| Range: | 4,800 nm at 15 kn | |
| Crew: | 138 | |
| Armament: | 4 x 4.7-inch naval guns (4 * 1) 2 × 2-pounder - Flak (2 * 1) 8 × 21-inch torpedo tubes (2 * 4) |
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HMCS Saguenay (D79) was a destroyer that was built on the basis of the A-class of the British Royal Navy for the Royal Canadian Navy and was then also used in World War II .
history
The ship was on 11 July 1930 as part of the first class destroyer of the Royal Navy / Royal Canadian Navy after the end of the First World War, was built at Thornycroft in Woolston , Southampton , from the stack. It was put into service on May 22, 1931. Experience with two previously built prototypes was incorporated into the planning and construction. It was the first major warship ever commissioned by Dominion Canada .
Before the war began, HMCS Saguenay was used on the Canadian Atlantic and Pacific coasts. During its service time in the war, the destroyer was then used almost exclusively as an escort ship in the Atlantic .
In the autumn of 1939, however, he was initially given the task of tracking down German blockade breakers who were trying to get home from the American east coast and the Caribbean . The ship was able to provide a German freighter in cooperation with the light cruiser HMS Orion .
After this task was done, HMCS Saguenay first escorted convoys , such as the convoy HX 65 , on the North Atlantic route. Since 1940 this happened as part of a Canadian escort group. During a brief mission on the Great Britain- Gibraltar route, the destroyer was torpedoed by the Italian submarine Argo in December 1940 . A mine hit followed immediately in front of the repair port .
The repair, which lasted until August 1941, was also used to reinforce the anti -submarine and anti-aircraft armament at the expense of the main artillery and a torpedo tube set. After the termination, further operations to secure convoys in the Atlantic followed.
During one of these escorts, HMCS Saguenay collided with the Panamanian merchant ship Azara on November 15, 1942 . As a result, several depth charges exploded at the stern of the destroyer, which was so badly damaged that the ship could no longer be fully repaired. Rather, the stern was only sealed to make it watertight. The destroyer was used as a training ship at its berth in Cornwallis , Nova Scotia for the remainder of the war .
In July 1945, HMCS Saguenay was removed from the list of active ships in the fleet, and three years later it was sold to a scrapping yard .
literature
- Michael J. Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two. An international encyclopedia. Arms and Armor Press, London et al. 1988, ISBN 0-85368-910-5 .
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