HMCS Athabaskan (DDH 282)

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HMCS Athabaskan
Career RAN Ensign
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched: November 27, 1970
Commissioned: November 30, 1972
Decommissioned:
Fate:
Struck:
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: 2 CH-124 Sea King helicopters
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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Iroquois-class destroyer
Iroquois | Huron | Athabaskan | Algonquin

List of ships of the Canadian Navy
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