HMCS ALGONQUIN

About the Ship

Characteristics

 

  • Type:  IROQUOIS Class Destroyer
  • Displacement:  5,146 tonnes
  • Length:  130 metres
  • Beam:  15.2 metres
  • Draught:  7.6 metres
  • Propulsion:  2 Pratt & Whitney FT-A4s capable of producing 25, 000 Shaft Horsepower; and 2 Allison 570KF cruise engines each capable of producing 6, 440 Shaft Horsepower
  • Speed:  Greater than 27 knots
  • Aircraft:  Capable of carrying two CH-124 Sea King Helicopters
  • Complement:  295 Officers and Crew
  • Armament/Guns:  76mm Oto Melara Super-Rapid Gun; Vulcan Phalanx 20mm Close in Weapons System (CIWS); 29 Vertical Launch Standard Missiles; 2 triple torpedo tudes to launch MK46 torpedoes
  • Commissioned:  3 November 1973
  • Modernized:  December 1990 

 

Date modified:
2/19/2004