HMCS Algonquin (R17)
HMCS Algonquin was a V-class destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion during the Second World War. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the aircraft carriers that bombed the Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. The destroyer was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. Algonquin was converted in 1953 to a frigate and spent the majority of her remaining career in the Atlantic, being decommissioned in 1970.
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HMCS Algonquin (R17)
HMCS Algonquin was a V-class destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion during the Second World War. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the aircraft carriers that bombed the Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. The destroyer was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. Algonquin was converted in 1953 to a frigate and spent the majority of her remaining career in the Atlantic, being decommissioned in 1970.
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HMCS Algonquin was a V-class d ...... being decommissioned in 1970.
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active years end date
1946-02-06
commissioning date
1944-02-28
laying down
1942-10-08
length (μ)
1.103376e+2
motto
*("With sure stroke")
*A coup sur
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ship launched
1943-09-02
status
Scrapped April 1971
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733,332,927
Ship armament
*4 × QF Mk IX guns
*2 × 40 mm Mk IV guns
*4 × 20 mm cannons
*8 × torpedo tubes
Ship badge
Blazon Sable, a base barry wav ...... d argent transfixing an eel Or
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Ship honours
*Norway, 1944
*Normandy, 1944
*Arctic, 1944-1945
Ship propulsion
*2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
*2-shaft Parsons geared turbines
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Ship refit
Ship sensors
*HF/DF
*Radar 272, later Radar 276
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HMCS Algonquin was a V-class d ...... being decommissioned in 1970.
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HMCS Algonquin (R17)
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Algonquin
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