Ship Details

Kootenay (H.M.C.S.) (II)

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Registry #1 DDE.258 (RCN) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1959 Kootenay (H.M.C.S.) (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1959 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 366' x 42' x 13.5'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 2366
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Destroyer, Restigouche-class
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 30,000shp steam turbine engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # DDE.258 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1959-1995 she was owned by Royal Canadian Navy.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2001-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Her sponsor was Mrs. Ralph Campney, wife of the Associate Minister of National Defence. In 2001 this vessel was sunk as an artificial reef off the coast of Mexico. Gary Wharton (Email to Nauticapedia 17/12/2022) reported that "On June 1, 1989, HMCS Kootney collided with the MV Nordpol, 28 nm off Cape Flattery."
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Richard Wall (2014 Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia);
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