HMCS Assiniboine (DDH 234)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Assiniboine.
HMCS Assiniboine was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1956 to 1988. She was the second ship to bear the name. Entering service in 1956, the ship underwent conversion to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in 1962, the conversion performed primarily by Victoria Machinery Depot.[5] She was officially reclassed with pennant DDH 234 on 28 June 1963. After being paid off in 1988, the vessel was used as a harbour training ship until being discarded in 1995. The vessel sank under tow to the breakers that year.
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Name | Assiniboine |
Namesake | Assiniboine River |
Builder | Marine Industries, Sorel |
Laid down | 19 May 1952 |
Launched | 12 February 1954 |
Commissioned | 16 August 1956 |
Decommissioned | 14 December 1988 |
Reclassified | 28 June 1963 (as DDH) |
Identification | 234 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1939–45, Biscay 1944, English Channel 1944–45[1] |
Fate | Sank in 1995 in the Caribbean Sea while under tow to breakers. |
Badge | Or, a bend wavy azure charged with two cotises wavy argent, over all a bison's head caboshed proper.[2] |
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Type | St. Laurent-class destroyer escort |
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Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
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Propulsion | 2-shaft English-Electric geared steam turbines, 3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers 22,000 kW (30,000 shp) |
Speed | 28.5 knots (52.8 km/h)[4] |
Range | 4,570 nautical miles (8,463.6 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
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