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Warships have large electrical power requirements, in order to run everything from heating and the lights, to galley equipment, electric fire pumps, sensors, and weapons systems. On IROQUOIS class destroyers, the Auxiliary Machinery Room (AMR) houses two 750 kW Solar Saturn gas turbine...

IROQUOIS alongside in HMC Dockyard this morning. Halifax Shipping Newsis reporting that HMCS IROQUOIS (DDG 280) will be officially paid off in a ceremony on the afternoon of May 1. She is already listed as "Retired" on the Navy's website, and her impending paying off was announced last year...

Having covered, in previous blog posts, the propulsion and power generation of the ship, I thought I would now cover the very basics of steering the ship. Starting with the primary helm station on the bridge: Bridge helm station. The bridge helm station is located towards the aft of the bridge...

Looking forward and to starboard across the bridge. Although the layout has changed, the large bridge and general concepts were also carried over to the HALIFAX class frigates 20 years later. Your comments Please @SpArK @Windjammer @AUSTERLITZ @Zarvan @C130 @Abingdonboy @sancho @jaunty...

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Bridge helm station looking to starboard. Bridge helm station: helm is on the left, throttle station on the right. I have covered the ship's helm and steering in aprevious post, so I won't cover it in detail here. However, I will comment on the photo immediately above - in that previous post, I...

To finish up the interior of HMCS IROQUOIS, this post will cover the helicopter hangar. The Royal Canadian Navy pioneered the operation of large helicopters from frigates and destroyers in the 1960s with the refit of the ST. LAURENT class to include a hangar and flight deck for the then-new...

OTO Melara 76mm Super Rapid gun. The Super Rapid version of the gun can fire 120 rounds per minute, and is improved over previous mountings to help counter anti-ship missiles as well as surface targets. The gun has a dedicated fire control system in the Lightweight Radar/Optronic Director...

Port WM 25 STIR, with LW-08 in the background. IROQUOIS carries two STIRs, port and starboard over the bridge. These would track and designate or "paint" targets for the ship's weapons systems, after being detected by the ship's other air defence radars. All the radars are gimbal-mounted to...

To finish up the tour of IROQUOIS, I will walk through some of her exterior features and equipment. When the IROQUOIS class received the TRUMP refit in the 1990s, they were optimized for Air Warfare, but retained the Undersea Warfare capability originally fitted, and had limited Surface Warfare...