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Canadian Destroyer Photographs.

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In the most recent box of photographs I am sorting through there seems to be many examples of Canadian destroyers, so I have decided to start a thread for these "cadillacs of the seas." I will be adding to them as and when I get the time. :) 1. Gatineau. 2. Gatineau. 3. Skeena. 4. Saguenay.
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These three are all of Margaree....
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Nice to see you posting your Canadian finds Terry.

Nice Photos All Must have some of mine somewhere but its a case of finding them lol Last box I squeezed out the corner of my "leave it there room" did contain a blue hooded jumper with HMCS Ottowa on the front in full colour - after almost 30 years the only thing wrong is either its shrunk or I've grown and the draw string around the hood is missing...... Danny

Thanks Dave and Danny -I do have literally hundreds of photographs of Canadian warships it is just a question of rounding them up and then scanning them. I do hope to do this over the forthcoming days/weeks! Anyway here are two more - one of Margaree again and the other I am not sure as there is nothing written on the back and I cant read the pennant number on the side!
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Astraltrader: If you look at the two photos closely and blow them up, you will note the ship's crest on the foremast under the Barber Pole Band. Both photos are of the Margaree. Regards, Brian

[quote=Brian Wentzell;1723597]Astraltrader: If you look at the two photos closely and blow them up, you will note the ship's crest on the foremast under the Barber Pole Band. Both photos are of the Margaree. Regards, Brian[/quote] Thanks Brian that is helpful. :) [It is Terry please - and most definitely not astralleader!!!]

Terry: I realized the mistake I made in your nom de plume after I pressed submit. My apologies. Brian

[quote=Brian Wentzell;1723732]Terry: I realized the mistake I made in your nom de plume after I pressed submit. My apologies. Brian[/quote] No problem Brian - I have been called far worse before! ;)

Just a request to keep photographs in this gallery for Destroyers only. I have moved Darley Daves three non-destroyer pictures to this thread below.... [URL]http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3483&page=3[/URL] I will be scanning in some more photos to this gallery later this week. :)

Another addition but I cant work out her name??
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Definately Restigouche Class with Vulcan, Harpoon & other additions for Gulf War. Wikipedia identifies Terra Nova as the ship having these modifications: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restigouche_class_destroyer[/url]. Great photos by the way!

[quote=Andy Waugh;1723830]Definately Restigouche Class with Vulcan, Harpoon & other additions for Gulf War. Wikipedia identifies Terra Nova as the ship having these modifications: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restigouche_class_destroyer[/URL]. Great photos by the way![/quote] Thanks Andy I am glad you like them. Plenty more as I dig them out for scanning! Next offering is this impressive sight of DDH280 Iroquois....
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Terry and Andy: HMCS Restigouche was also fitted with the Gulf War mods as it was intended that she would relieve Terra Nova. The photo is therefore one of two possible ships. Brian

Terry and Andy: I was able to blow the picture up, the hull number is 257, she is HMCS Restigouche! Her name plate also appears to bear a single name and that would suggest Restigouche as well. Cheers, Brian

Many thanks Brian that is very helpful. :)

Terry here is a photo of HMCS Skeena pulling away from Bonaventure after a refuelling. Taken in 1968. Cheers Dave
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[quote=LSRP2;10005379]Terry here is a photo of HMCS Skeena pulling away from Bonaventure after a refuelling. Taken in 1968. Cheers Dave[/quote] Thanks Dave. :)

A few more photos of Canadian destroyers taken in the late 1960s.
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More 'Cadillacs';
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Gentlemen: Posts 19 and 20 have very interesting pictures. The picture of HMCS St. Laurent (pPost19) shows her as built, except that she has been repainted in the modern all light grey colour. Her 3"50 cal twin mounts do not yet have the fibreglass gunshields and she still mounts her single 40mm Bofors amidships. In post 20 there are pictures of HMCS MacKenzie and Qu'appelle. These are sister ships except for one important detail. MacKenzie mounts the 3"70 cal twin gun forward while Qu'appelle was completed with the 3"50 cal twin gun in its place. She has the fibreglass shield. Neither ship was extensively modernised like HMCS Gatineau (the last picture in the group, a ship of the prior Restigouche Class)) or the St. Laurent Class (see Skeena and Saquenay in Post 19). They lived out their years as cadet training ships on the West Coast of Canada. Brian

Good pictures Monty many thanks. Guys could we please try and keep any pictures uploaded to at least a medium size. IMHO it is pointless and a waste of forum space to upload tiny low resolution pictures and where it is virtually impossible to see any detail at all. Many thanks.

Thank you Terry. I try to do my best here, for all concerned, and I hope it's good enough for at least most of the time. :) Monty

With special thanks to member Sierra Hotel, I would like to share these with you;
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HMCS Ottawa during a visitors day, date and place unknown.
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I could be wrong but that looks like the south side of NC in Halifax (beside D165). Cars are early 70s and the plate on what appears to be a Plymouth seems to be a DND one. Looks like the stern of a CCG vessel on the north of NB? Of course, I could be completely out to lunch-Looks like some sort of building top sign on the extreme right.

Excellent photo! Ship modellers will love the detail in this one. Thanks for sharing.:)

I may have another shot from this series, bow on, it has been years since I developed this. The sign might read Federal Express(?)

[quote=the Chief;10029058]HMCS Ottawa during a visitors day, date and place unknown.[/quote] Great picture thanks for sharing it with us. I have moved it along with three related replies to join her sister ships in the designated gallery we have in existence for Canadian Destroyers. :)

Chief: The car is definately wearing a Department of National Defence number plate. It could be a Chrysler product from the late 1960s or 70s. The Sea King, perhaps tail number 417 or 411, is wearing the name "Maritime Command" under the number. That suggests the photo is after unification of the Canadian Forces in February 1968. There is another ship ahead of Ottawa but I am not certain of what class, ship or country it is from. There is a tall structure to the right side of the picture with a sign on it. This reminds me of one of the old factories on the Toronto waterfront but similar structures existed in Montreal and Saint John, NB-so that is not much help. Brian

Chief: Two further observations from the picture. Ottawa is not equipped with the TACAN beacon between the funnels and the crew are wearing the "jolly green uniform" that replaced the naval uniform after 1968. I am not sure when the TACAN was installed but she probably received it in her long refit in 1977-78. There is a picture in Jane's Fighting Ships 1976-77 of Ottawa in UK waters in October 1976 without the TACAN beacon. Brian

IMHO...Still the best looking ships.....HMCS Nipigon c1985 Regards Brian
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Brian: The "Steamers" were handsome ships in all their configurations. I think it was the hull shape that really set them apart from the broken nose style of the UK designed Type 12s. The addition of the helicopter hanger added bulk but it did not distort the basic lines. The installation of lattice masts on the IRE conversions and the Annapolis Class served to further emphasize the hull lines. At least we have many photographs and the Resin Shipyard model of HMCS St. Laurent for memories. Cheers, Brian

Agreed gentlemen, the appearance of Annapolis and Nipigon was indeed improved by the replacement of their original masts with the lattice type and was further enhanced by the lack of the TACAN beacon between the funnels and the reversion to the original St.Laurent-look stern. The IREs remain my personal favourites tho (see Terra Nova post #24). The trick is - they were all great looking ships to begin with.
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Not in high def but still a nice shot of HMCS St Laurent..Regards Brian...
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A brass or maybe bronze(!?) crest, about five or six pounds worth, from HMCS Sioux. Not sure what it was used for as there are no mounting holes or bolts (unlike one that I had from Cayuga), maybe as a centre-piece on a table or even as an ashtray. I met a fellow not long ago that said 'I may have had that made'. He was on a depot ship and the practise was to ask for a batch of spent brass 4inch cases when a ship pulled along side and use them to make the ship's crest as an exercise in casting for his trainees.
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Brian: Thanks for posting the photo of HMCS St. Laurent as DDH 205. She and her sister HMCS Assiniboine, DDH 234, were the first two DDH conversions. They had twin raked funnels unlike their five sisters which had higher twin funnels without the raked top. I suspect that this had to do with smoke and gases intefering with helicopter operations. I also thought the shorter raked funnel made the two ships a little more graceful than their sisters. Brian

HMCS Waskesu Regards John
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[quote=Stokers Son;10031146]HMCS Waskesu Regards John[/quote] A River Class frigate, surely??

Gentlemen: Ths ship is HMCS Waskesiu, K330, and she was the first of the Canadian built "River" Class frigates commissioned into the RCN on June 16, 1943 at Victoria, BC. She survived the war and was sold to the Indian Government in 1947 to become the pilot vessel Hooghly. Brian

Absolutely Brian that was my point as this gallery is intended for Canadian destroyers! ;) No matter I will move it in due course. :)

Does have any pictures of HMCS ST. LAURANT as a DDE

Paul: See post 19 in this thread. The sixth picture is HMCS St. Laurent, DDE 205. She is painted light grey but the fibreglass gun shields had not yet been fitted on the two twin 3"50 cal. mounts. Brian

Here is some of her with a dark hull [url]http://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss276/paul_541/hmcsstlaurent.jpg[/url] [url]http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/cms_images/centennial_images/heritage/ikmd-04207_small.jpg[/url] [url]https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwoN2e8Nq8r_J1dftO0jgmod-H-c59LiMJinHZWFzeL0785Y2frg[/url]

John, Thanks for the photo of Waskesiu - not a destroyer but nice all the same. Paul, A pair of St. Laurent photos:
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Hi Monty, Thanks for the St. Laurent photographs nice addition to the collection the first two. Regards John

Monty: Prior to her conversion to a DDH, HMCS St. Laurent was used to prototype and trial the Variable Depth Sonar installation for the DDH conversions and the later Annapolis Class. The cutaway stern provided the location for the winch and frame required to lower and raise the sonar array. I have seen only one picutre of her in that configuration and that while she was under modification, probably in 1960 or 1961. Have you seen any photos of her in that configuration? Brian

Brian and Monty ..the only shot of St Laurent I have showing the stern is this...Regards Brian
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Brian W, Sorry Brian, I do not have a photo of St. Laurent in DDE/VDS configuration but I'll keep looking. It certainly ought to be one worth finding. Brian J, Thanks for the lovely shot of St. Laurent. It shows her to great advantange - another keeper for sure. The photo below shows the 'hind end' of the early 'Cadillacs at Esquimalt::)
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Monty and Brian J. The photo of HMCS St. Laurent is of interest because it shows her as completed following the DDH conversion. It should be noted she is sporting a mainmast and two communications aerials at the aft end of the helicopter hangar. These quickly disappeared from her and HMCS Assiniboine as they must have frightened the daylights out of the Sea King helicopter pilots or the air safety folks! The cutaway stern was created prior to the DDH conversion as I noted in my prior post. I don't know if it was further altered during the conversion process. I do recall an article in the old "Crowsnest" series about the VDS modification. Brian

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