HMCS Kootenay (H75)
D-class destroyer
Service
- as Decoy4 April 1933 — 1 March 19431,277 days of the war
- as Kootenay12 April 1943 — 26 October 1945874 days of the war
- Name
- HMCS Kootenay
- Pennant / hull number
- H75
- Builder
- John I. Thornycroft & Company, Southampton
- Ordered
- 2 February 1931
- Laid down
- 25 June 1931
- Launched
- 7 June 1932
- Commissioned
- 4 April 1933
- Decommissioned
- 26 October 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,890 long tons (1,920 t)
- Length
- 100.28 m (329 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,870 nmi (10,871 km)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
HMCS Kootenay was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H75. John I. Thornycroft & Company, Southampton laid her keel on 25 June 1931. She entered service on 4 April 1933, having been launched on 7 June 1932.
She displaced 1,375 long tons standard and 1,890 long tons at full load. She measured 100.3 m (329 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 145. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.
She served with the Royal Navy as Decoy until 1 March 1943. She then passed to the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as Kootenay from 12 April 1943. She was in commission for 2,151 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 26 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts
- 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Power
- 36000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × 1 - 4.7-inch Mk IX guns
- 1 × 1 - QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun
- 2 × 4 - QF .5 in Vickers Mk III AA machine guns
- 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMCS Kootenay (H75) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Official photographer — This photograph A 6465 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 205140582) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons