HMCS Sioux (R64)
HMCS Sioux circa. August 1951 - February 1952, probably in Korean waters
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Vixen |
| Ordered: | 1 September 1941 |
| Builder: | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
| Laid down: | 31 October 1942 |
| Launched: | 14 September 1943 |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy 1944 |
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Canada
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| Name: | Sioux |
| Namesake: | Sioux people |
| Commissioned: | 21 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 February 1946 |
| Identification: | pennant number: R64 |
| Recommissioned: | 1950 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 October 1963 |
| Identification: | pennant number: 225 |
| Motto: | Then I will fight |
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| Fate: | Scrapped at La Spezia, Italy, August 1965 |
| Notes: | Colours: White and vermilion |
| Badge: | Argent, a Sioux Indian head proper facing the dexter and wearing an appropriate feather head-dress of a Sioux Chief |
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| Class and type: | V-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,710 tonnes (1,683 long tons) |
| Length: | 362 ft 10 in (110.59 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
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| Speed: | 36 knots (41 mph; 67 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,860 nmi (9,000 km) at 29 kn (54 km/h) |
| Complement: | 230 (14 officers) |
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HMCS Sioux was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy which fought in the Second World War and the Korean War. She was launched as HMS Vixen for the British Royal Navy before being transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. She was then named for the Sioux people of Canada's western provinces.
Vixen was ordered on 1 September 1941 as part of the 1941 shipbuilding programme. The destroyer's keel was laid down on 31 October 1942 by J. Samuel White at Cowes. The ship was launched on 14 September 1943. As part of the Warship Week in January 1942 Vixen was adopted by the town of Kirkcaldy, Fife. The destroyer was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, into which she was then commissioned and renamed on 21 February 1944 while fitting out at Cowes, and was completed on 5 March 1944.
After commissioning Sioux joined the 26th Destroyer Flotilla of the British Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. The Home Fleet deployed on 29 March 1944 as part of the covering force for convoy JW 58 sailing to Russia. On 3 April, Sioux she escorted the aircraft carriers that attacked the German battleship Tirpitz, which was anchored at Altenfjord, Norway, and German shipping along the Norwegian coast as part of Operation Tungsten. On 26 April, the destroyer was part of the screening force for strikes on German shipping off the coast of Norway and returned again in early May for more screening duties.
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