HMCS Huron (G24)
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| Name: | Huron |
| Namesake: | Huron people |
| Ordered: | 5 April 1940 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Laid down: | 15 July 1941 |
| Launched: | 25 June 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 28 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 March 1946 |
| Identification: | pennant number: G24 |
| Recommissioned: | 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 April 1963 |
| Identification: | pennant number: 216 |
| Motto: | Ready the brave |
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| Fate: | Scrapped, La Spezia, 1965 |
| Notes: | Colours: Gold and crimson |
| Badge: | Or nicotine bloom Gules seed pod Vert and stamens Or. |
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| Class and type: | Tribal-class destroyer |
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| Length: | 114.9 m (377 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 11.13 m (36 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 3.96 m (13 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty boilers, 44,000 hp (32,811 kW) |
| Speed: | 36.25 knots (41.72 mph; 67.14 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,700 nmi (10,600 km) at 17 kn (20 mph; 31 km/h) |
| Complement: | 240 |
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HMCS Huron was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and the Korean War. She was the first ship to bear this name. She was named for the Huron people.
Huron was ordered on 5 April 1940 as part of the 1940 shipbuilding programme. However due to the increased workload on British shipyards due to losses on the continent, her keel-laying was delayed. She was laid down on 15 July 1941 by Vickers-Armstrongs on the River Tyne in England and launched 25 June 1942. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 19 July 1943 at Newcastle upon Tyne. She was completed on 28 July.
After commissioning, Huron was assigned to the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla of the British Home Fleet. In October she carried special supplies and personnel to Murmansk. On her return to Scapa Flow she was damaged in a collision with an oiler and spent a month in repair at Leith. After her return from the dockyard she then spent the rest of the year escorting convoys bound for the Soviet Union.
Huron continued to escort convoys bound for the Arctic until February 1944 when she transferred to the 10th Destroyer Flotilla to take part in the lead up to the Invasion of Normandy. She spent the next three months preparing for the invasion and was present on D-Day. On the 25 April 1944, she, along with several other destroyers, encountered three German torpedo boats. The result of the engagement saw the Canadian destroyers sink T-29 and severely damage the others. On 9 June 1944, as part of a destroyer flotilla tasked with protecting the approaches to the landing site, Huron intercepted a force of German destroyers heading for the invasion fleet in what became known as the Battle of Ushant. After a fierce gun battle she assisted HMCS Haida in running Z32 aground and pummeling the wreck. Later that month on the 27 and 28 June 1944, she sank a heavily armed minesweeper and several patrol boats.
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