HMS Crusader (H60)

HMCS Ottawa before 1942
History
United Kingdom
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
Motto	Non nobis Domine ("Not under us, Lord")
Fate	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, 15 June 1938
Badge	On a Field Black, a Shield silver, thereon a cross Red
Canada
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
Displacement	1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard) 1,865 long tons (1,895 t) (deep)
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)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
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
Armament	4 × 1 – QF 4.7-inch Mk IX guns 1 × 1 – QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun 2 × 1 – QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 – 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes

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.