HMCS Ottawa (H31)
Service
- as Griffin6 June 1936 — 1 March 19431,277 days of the war
- as Ottawa7 April 1943 — May 1945782 days of the war
- Name
- HMCS Ottawa
- Pennant / hull number
- H31
- Namesake
- Griffin
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, UK
- Laid down
- 20 September 1934
- Launched
- 15 August 1935
- Commissioned
- 6 June 1936
- Decommissioned
- May 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, August 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,350 long tons (1,372 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,883 long tons (1,913 t)
- Length
- 98.45 m (323 ft)
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,530 nmi (10,242 km)
- Complement
- 137
- Main gun
- 120 mm (4.7 in)
HMCS Ottawa was a G-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H31. The ship was named after Griffin. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, UK laid her keel on 20 September 1934. Launched on 15 August 1935, she entered service on 6 June 1936.
Eleven ships of the class were built.
She displaced 1,350 long tons standard and 1,883 long tons at full load. She measured 98.5 m (323 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 137.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 34,000 shp through two shafts.
She served with the Royal Navy as Griffin until 1 March 1943. She then passed to the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as Ottawa from 7 April 1943. She was in commission for 2,059 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in May 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in August 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 geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 34000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns
- 2 × quadruple 0.5 in machine guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMCS Ottawa (H31) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 13646 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons