HMS Kempenfelt (I18)

HMS Kempenfelt in August 1933
History
United Kingdom
Name	Kempenfelt
Namesake	Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt
Awarded	15 July 1930
Builder	J. Samuel White, Cowes
Laid down	18 October 1930
Launched	29 October 1931
Completed	30 May 1932
Fate	Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy, 19 October 1939
Canada
Name	Assiniboine
Namesake	Assiniboine River
Commissioned	19 October 1939
Decommissioned	8 August 1945
Motto	Fideliter (Latin: "Faithfully")
Nickname(s)	"Bones"
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1939-45, Biscay 1944, English Channel 1944-45[1]
Fate	Sold for scrapping but wrecked en route to breakers on 10 November 1945 Wreck broken up in situ in 1952
Badge	Badge: On a field Black a Sword proper between two wings greenover two wavelets Silver and Blue.
General characteristics
Displacement	1,390 long tons (1,412 t) (standard) 1,901 long tons (1,932 t) (deep)
Length	329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Yarrow water-tube boilers
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	145
Armament	4 × 1 - QF 4.7-inch Mark IX guns 1 × 1 - QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 6 × depth charges, 3 chutes

HMS Kempenfelt was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict.

Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939 and renamed HMCS Assiniboine. During World War II, she served as a convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic, sinking one German submarine by ramming, on anti-submarine patrols during the invasion of Normandy, and was employed as a troop transport after VE Day for returning Canadian servicemen, before being decommissioned in mid-1945.

Assiniboine was sold for scrap in 1945, but she ran aground while being towed to the breakers and was not broken up until 1952.