Decommissioning
Terra Nova was decommissioned from active service in the CF on 11 July 1997.
After being paid off Terra Nova appeared, cast as an American destroyer, in the movie K-19: The Widowmaker.
In December 2007 there was discussion about sinking Terra Nova for a diving attraction in the St. Lawrence River near Brockville, Ontario, however the plans fell through and she remained laid up at CFB Halifax.
On September 18, 2009, the Department of National Defence called for bids for "the removal, dismantling and disposal" of HMCS Terra Nova and HMCS Gatineau (DDE 236). The deadline for submissions for the work was October 8, 2009. On November 4, 2009, DND announced that Aecon Fabco had won the bid and would tow both vessels to their Pictou Shipyard in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Terra Nova departed Halifax Harbour on November 20 under tow by the tugboat Atlantic Elm and arrived in Pictou on November 22, where she joined the Gatineau which had arrived a few days earlier. By the summer of 2010 she was being cut up for scrap, mainly aluminum, stainless steel and carbon steel. She later sank at her mooring and was raised by crane in April 2011.
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