![]() HMCS Ottawa before 1942
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Name | Crusader |
Ordered | 15 July 1930 |
Builder | Portsmouth Dockyard |
Laid down | 12 September 1930 |
Launched | 30 September 1931 |
Completed | 2 May 1932 |
Identification | Pennant number: H60 |
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Fate | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, 15 June 1938 |
Badge | On a Field Black, a Shield silver, thereon a cross Red |
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Name | Ottawa |
Namesake | Ottawa River |
Commissioned | 15 June 1938 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic, 1939–45 |
Fate | Sunk by U-91, 14 September 1942 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | C-class destroyer |
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Length | 329 ft (100.3 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
Installed power | 36,000 shp (27,000 kW) |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
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HMS Crusader was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. She saw service in the Home and Mediterranean Fleets and spent six months during the Spanish Civil War in late 1936 in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Crusader was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1938 and renamed HMCS Ottawa. She was initially deployed on the Canadian Pacific Coast before World War II, but was transferred to the Atlantic three months after the war began. She served as a convoy escort during the battle of the Atlantic until sunk by the German submarine U-91 on 14 September 1942. Together with a British destroyer, she sank an Italian submarine in the North Atlantic in November 1941.