HMCS Algonquin (R17)
Sister ship HMCS Sioux in the 1950s
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| Name: | Algonquin |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 602 |
| Laid down: | 8 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 2 September 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1944 |
| Out of service: | 6 February 1946 |
| Refit: | 1954 |
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| Fate: | Scrapped April 1971 |
| Badge: | Blazon Sable, a base barry wavy argent and azure of four, from which issues an Indian's arm embowed proper wearing arm and wrist bands argent and holding a fish spear in bend argent transfixing an eel Or |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type: | V-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 2,700 long tons (2,743 t) |
| Length: | 362 ft 9 in (110.57 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m) |
| Draught: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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| Speed: | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) |
| Range: | 4,860 nmi (9,000 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 250 |
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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.
Ordered as Kempenfelt by the Royal Navy, the destroyer's keel was laid down on 8 October 1942. The ship's name was changed to Valentine in 1942. The destroyer was launched on 2 September 1943.Valentine was renamed Algonquin and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 28 February 1944.
Following her commissioning, Algonquin was sent to Scapa Flow to work up with her sister Sioux. They were then assigned to the British Home Fleet's 26th Destroyer Flotilla. Departing on 29 March 1944 from Scapa Flow, the flotilla joined the escort screen on 31 March for the force sent to cover the Russian convoy JW 58. On 3 April they join the fleet sent to bomb the German battleship Tirpitz in Operation Tungsten. On 26 April Algonquin escorted a strike force hunting for German ships near the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. On 6 May, Algonquin deployed as part of a force comprising two aircraft carriers and five other destroyers. Aircraft from the carriers attacked two German convoys and sank two ships for the loss of two aircraft.Algonquin and the 26th Destroyer Flotilla began training for Operation Neptune, the naval component of the Normandy invasion. The flotilla departed Scapa Flow on 28 May for Portsmouth.Algonquin and sister Sioux provided gunfire support to the landings on Juno Beach.
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