HMCS Algonquin (R17)

Sister ship HMCS Sioux in the 1950s
History
Canada
Name	Algonquin
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Yard number	602
Laid down	8 October 1942
Launched	2 September 1943
Commissioned	28 February 1944
Out of service	6 February 1946
Refit	1954
Identification	pennant number: R17 Later DDE 224
Motto	A coup sur ("With sure stroke")[1]
Honours and awards	Norway, 1944 Normandy, 1944 Arctic, 1944–1945[1]
Fate	Scrapped April 1971
Badge	Blazon Sable, a base barry wavy argent and azure of four, from which issues an Indian's arm embowed proper wearing arm and wrist bands argent and holding a fish spear in bend argent transfixing an eel Or[1][2][3]
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	V-class destroyer
Displacement	2,700 long tons (2,743 t)
Length	362 ft 9 in (110.57 m)
Beam	35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Draught	10 ft (3.0 m)
Propulsion	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines 40,000 shp (29,828 kW)
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Range	4,860 nmi (9,000 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h)
Complement	250
Sensors and processing systems	HF/DF Radar 272, later Radar 276 Mark 63 fire-control system
Armament	4 × 4.7 in (119 mm) QF Mk IX guns (4×1) 2 × 40 mm Mk IV guns 4 × 20 mm cannons (4×1) 8 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2×4)

HMCS Algonquin was a V-class destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion during the Second World War. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the aircraft carriers that bombed the Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. The destroyer was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. Algonquin was converted in 1953 to a frigate and spent the majority of her remaining career in the Atlantic, being paid off in 1970.