HMCS Margaree (DDH 230)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Margaree.
HMCS Margaree was a St. Laurent-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1957–1992. She underwent conversion to a destroyer helicopter escort (DDH) in the mid-1960s and was officially reclassed with pennant DDH 230 on 15 October 1965. The vessel served until 1992 when it was discarded, sold for scrap and broken up in 1994.
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Name | Margaree |
Namesake | Margaree River |
Builder | Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
Laid down | 12 September 1951 |
Launched | 29 March 1956 |
Commissioned | 5 October 1957 |
Decommissioned | 2 May 1992 |
Reclassified | 15 October 1965 (as DDH) |
Identification | Pennant number: 230 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1940[1] |
Fate | Scrapped in 1994. |
Badge | Azure, three cotises wavy argent, over all a flower of the Marguerite (daisy) proper.[1] |
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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)[3] |
Range | 4,570 nautical miles (8,463.6 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
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