HMCS Huron (G24)

For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Huron.

Huron underway
History
Canada
NameHuron
NamesakeHuron people
Ordered5 April 1940
BuilderVickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down15 July 1941
Launched25 June 1942
Commissioned28 July 1943
Decommissioned9 March 1946
IdentificationPennant number: G24
Recommissioned1950
Decommissioned30 April 1963
IdentificationPennant number: DDE 216
MottoReady the brave
Honours and
awards
  • Arctic, 1943–1945
  • English Channel, 1944
  • Normandy, 1944
  • Korea, 1951–1953[1]
FateScrapped, La Spezia, 1965
NotesColours: Gold and crimson
BadgeOr nicotine bloom Gules seed pod Vert and stamens Or.[2]
General characteristics
Class and typeTribal-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 1,927 long tons (1,958 t) standard
  • 2,559 long tons (2,600 t) full load
Length
  • 335 ft 6 in (102.3 m) pp
  • 377 ft (114.9 m) oa
Beam36 ft 6 in (11.1 m)
Draught13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty boilers, 44,000 hp (32,811 kW)
Speed36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range5,700 nmi (10,600 km) at 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement259
Armament
  • 6 × 4.7 in (119 mm) guns (3×2)
  • 2 × 4 in (102 mm) guns (1×2)
  • 4 × 2-pounder QF guns (1x4)
  • 6 × 20 mm cannon (6X1)
  • 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (1×4)

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, entering service in 1943. She was named for the Huron people. During the Second World War the vessel saw service in Operation Neptune in the Bay of Biscay and along the French coast in support of the invasion of Normandy and escorted convoys to the Soviet Union. Following the war, the ship was placed in reserve. The destroyer was activated in 1950 as a training ship, but with the onset of the Korean War, was modernized and deployed twice to Korea. Following the war, Huron reverted to a training ship and took part in Cold War-era North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) naval exercises until being paid off for the final time in 1963 and broken up for scrap in 1965.

  1. ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Volume 2, Part 1: Extant Commissioned Ships". National Defence and the Canadian Forces. 2006. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2014.