DDH-283 Algonquin

Country:  Canada

Class, [Type]: Iroquois, [DDG].

Builder: Davie, Lauzon, Quebec, Canada.

Launch date: 23 April 1971.

Commission date: 30 September 1973.

Decommission date: 11 June 2015.

Displacement ( tons ): 4.450 standard, 5.100 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 121,31 x 15,24 x 4,69

Main machinery: COGOG: 2 x Pratt & Whitney FT4A-2 boost gas turbines ( 47.500 hp ), 2 x G.M. Allison 570KF cruise gas turbines ( 12.800 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 29.

Range ( miles ): 3.500 at 20 knots, 4.500 at 15 knots.

Complement: 292 ( 26 officers ) plus 30 ( Air Group, 9 officers ).

Guns: 1 x OTO Breda Super Rapid 76mm/62, 1 x Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 Block I CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 1 x Mk 41 VLS ( 29 x Standard SM-2 Block IIIA missiles).

Torpedoes: 2 x triple 324mm Mk32 Mod. 5.

Radar: Surface/Air search: 1 x Thales SPQ-501 (DA-08/2LS), 1 x Thales SPQ-502 (LW-08); Navigation: 2 x Raytheon 1900 Pathfinder; Fire Control: 2 x Raytheon SPG-501 (STIR 1.8/OT-134), 1 x General Dynamics Mk 90 ( CIWS ), 1 x Thales LIROD-8 ( gun ).

Sonar: SQS-505(V)4 hull-mounted; SQS-505(V)5 VDS; C-Tech Spectra 3000 ( mine-avoidance ).

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Plessey Shield decoy launchers, SLQ-25 Nixie towed acoustic torpedo decoy; EW: Racal SLQ-503 (CANEWS) ( intercept ), SRD-503 HFD/F; ULQ-6B ( jammer ).

Helicopter: 2 x CH-124A Sea King.

Callsign: CZJX ()

Homeport: Esquimalt.

Similar units:

 DDH280 Iroquois
 DDH282 Athabaskan