&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:HMCS_Sioux_AWM_P05890.046.jpeg) HMCS Sioux circa. August 1951 – February 1952, probably in Korean waters
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| 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 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Sioux |
| Namesake | Sioux people |
| Commissioned | 21 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 27 February 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: R64 Later DDE 225 |
| Recommissioned | 1950 |
| Decommissioned | 30 October 1963 |
| Motto | Then I will fight[1] |
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| Fate | Scrapped at La Spezia, Italy, August 1965 |
| Notes | Colours: White and vermilion[1] |
| Badge | Argent, a Sioux Indian head proper facing the dexter and wearing an appropriate feather head-dress of a Sioux Chief[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| 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.