Province-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Province-class Guided Missile Destroyer is a class of destroyer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command and the South African Navy.

Specifications

 * Type: Destroyer (hull designation symbol DDG)
 * Service Period: 2011-20??
 * Builders:
 * MIL-Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, Quebec
 * Allied Shipbuilders, Vancouver, British Columbia
 * Canada Shipbuilding Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia
 * Characteristics
 * Displacement: 8,920 tons
 * Length: 187 m (613 ft 6 in)
 * Beam: 19.4 m (63 ft 8 in)
 * Draft: 9 m (29 ft 7 in)
 * Propulsion:
 * 4 General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines (license-built by Vektris Engineering in Red Deer, AB)
 * 2 General Motors Model 265 turbodiesel cruise engines
 * 2 Vektris Engineering cross-connect gearboxes
 * 2 Escher Wyss controllable pitch propellers
 * 4 General Motors/Western Electric 2.3 MW electric generators
 * 2 shafts
 * Power Output: 180,000 shp (maximum)
 * Top Speed: 34.5 knots (64 km/h)
 * Range: 8,800 miles at 15 knots
 * Complement: 28 officers, 254 enlisted
 * Boats Carried: 2 Rigid-hull inflatable boats
 * Aircraft Carried: Up to 2 CH-148 Cyclone ASW helicopters
 * Armament:
 * 1 Mark 45 Mod 4 5"/62-caliber naval gun
 * 2 Mk 41 64-cell Vertical Launch Systems, 128 cells (can be armed with SM-2, SM-3, ESSM, Tomahawk and VL-ASROC missiles)
 * 2 Mk 141 Harpoon Launchers (8 Harpoon anti-ship missiles)
 * 2 Naval Defender 35mm CIWS systems
 * 2 Mark 32 324mm (12.75") Triple Torpedo Tubes
 * 4 M2 Browning 12.7mm machine guns

Royal Canadian Navy

 * HMCS Ontario (DDG-290)
 * HMCS Quebec (DDG-291)
 * HMCS Alberta (DDG-292)
 * HMCS British Columbia (DDG-293)
 * HMCS Manitoba (DDG-294)
 * HMCS Nova Scotia (DDG-295)
 * HMCS Saskatchewan (DDG-296)
 * HMCS Newfoundland (DDG-297)
 * HMCS Prince Edward Island (DDG-298)
 * HMCS New Brunswick (DDG-299)

South African Navy

 * SAS Springbok (D300)
 * SAS Galjoen (D301)
 * SAS Blue Crane (D302)