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HMCS ''Terra Nova'' (DDE 259) was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from 1959-1997. After her final refit, she was a guided missile destroyer. She was the sixth ship of her class and the first Canadian war ship to bear the name HMCS ''Terra Nova''. The ship honours the Terra Nova River in Newfoundland as well as an earlier civilian ship, ''Terra Nova'', which gained fame during a scientific exploration voyage to Antarctica. Both the river and the Antarctic (symbolized by a penguin) are featured on the ship's badge. ''Terra Nova'' was laid down on 11 June 1953 at Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd., Victoria and launched on 21 June 1955. She was commissioned into the RCN on 6 June 1959 with the pennant number 259. ''Terra Nova'' was selected by the Canadian Forces for the Improved Restigouche (IRE) project and completed this refit in 1968. She was also selected as one of ten destroyers in the Destroyer Life Extension (DELEX) project and completed this refit on 9 November 1984. Westploy 1973 Terra Nova was given notice on a Friday afternoon that she was being deployed Monday morning for South East Asia in support of the Canadian Army component of ICCS in Vietnam.She was gone for 6 months until relieved by HMCS Kootenay. ==Operation FRICTION== ''Terra Nova'' was selected in August 1990 for deployment with Operation FRICTION, the CF contribution to Operation DESERT STORM (the Gulf War). She had her Mk.112 ASROC octuple launcher and her Mk. NC10 Limbo ASW mortars removed and was fitted with 8 × Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a Phalanx close-in weapon system (CIWS). She was also enhanced with three detachments of Javelin surface-to-air missile systems from 119 Air Defence Battery. With this, she became the first guided-missile destroyer in the Canadian Navy. ''Terra Nova'' was deployed with the Canadian Naval Task Group, led by flagship and the supply ship . The Task Group was assigned to the international coalition maritime interdiction force in the central Persian Gulf which consisted of a variety of coalition naval forces on station through the fall of 1990. After Operation DESERT STORM began in January, the Canadian Naval Task Group undertook escort duties for hospital ships and other vulnerable coalition naval vessels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMCS Terra Nova (DDE 259)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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