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The ''Restigouche''-class destroyer was a class of destroyers that served the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from the late-1950s to the late-1990s. The Royal Canadian Navy began planning the in the late 1940s and originally intended to procure 14 vessels. Delays in design and construction saw the number of vessels for the ''St. Laurent''-class halved to 7. The seven remaining vessels were redesigned as the ''Restigouche'' class, taking into account design improvements found during construction of the ''St. Laurent''s. There were seven ships of the class commissioned between 1958 and 1959. The most noticeable difference between the ''St. Laurent'' and ''Restigouche'' classes was that the latter had the bridge raised one full deck higher in order to see over a new forward Vickers 3 inch/70 Mk6 gun mount.〔Chumbly and Gardner, p.45〕 ==Improved Restigouche (IRE)== Between 1966 to 1973, four ships of this class were refitted to what is known as the Improved Restigouche (IRE). This refit involved replacing the aft 3 inch/50 gun with an octuple ASROC launcher. The old radar/communication mast was also replaced with a taller lattice mast. The stern was altered and one Limbo ASW mortar was removed in order to accommodate a new variable depth sonar.〔 The three vessels that did not receive this refit were paid off into Category "C" Reserve soon afterward, during the manpower shortages of the early to mid-1970s when the newly unified Canadian Forces experienced defence budget cuts. was used as a parts hulk and donated her bow to after the latter was damaged in a collision. became a dockside engineering training platform at CFB Esquimalt and had her weapons and propellers removed and her machinery spaces converted into classrooms.〔 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「Restigouche-class destroyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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