Royal Canadian Navy - Destroyer
DD 224 - HMCS Algonquin
Type, Class:		Destroyer - DD / UK V-class planned,keel laid and launched as HMS Valentine / transferred to Royal Canadian Navy
Builder:		John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland, UK
STATUS:		Laid down: October 8, 1942 Launched: September 2, 1943 transferred to Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 Commissioned: February 28, 1944 Decommissioned: February 6, 1946 placed in reserve refit in 1953 Recommissioned: February 25, 1953 Decommissioned: April 1, 1970 Fate: sold for scrap; scrapped in Taiwan 1971
Homeport:		-
Namesake:		The Algonquins are Native Canadian inhabitants of North America who speak the Algonquin language
Ship’s Motto:		A COUP SUR (with sure stroke)
Technical Data: (Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)		see: INFO > Algonquin / V - class Destroyer
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HMCS Algonquin (DD 224): HMCS Algonquin was a V-Class World War II destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the carriers that bombed the Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. She was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. She was modernized in 1953 and saw out the rest of her career in the Atlantic, being decommissioned in 1970. WWII: One of Algonquin's first assignments was as part of the British Home Fleet's 26th Destroyer Flotilla. In March 1944, with the flotilla, she formed part of the escort for the aircraft carriers that bombed the German battleship Tirpitz in Operation Tungsten. In April of that year she escorted a strike force hunting for German ships near the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. Algonquin left Scapa Floe in May to participate in Operation Neptune, the naval component of the Normandy invasion and later provided gunfire support to the landings on Juno Beach. Upon the operation's conclusion she returned to Scapa Floe to resume he usual duties. In July she formed part of the escort for the British aircraft carriers during the Operation Mascot raid against Tirpitz. In August Algonquin participated in the rescue of the crew of the carrier HMS Nabob, which had been torpedoed and badly damaged during the Operation Goodwood strikes on Tirpitz, and rescued 200 men. In the winter of 1944/5 she helped to escort arctic convoy JW 63/RW 63 from Scotland to Kola Bay, Russia and back. Algonquin arrived in Canada in February 1945 for a tropicalization refit at Halifax. Work was complete by August when she departed to join the British Pacific Fleet, though she did not arrive by the war's end, being in the Eastern Mediterranean on VJ-day. Following a brief stop in Alexandria, Egypt she crossed the Indian and Pacific Oceans to her new base at Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard. Once there she was placed into reserve and remained unused for several years. Post-war service: In 1953, Algonquin was modernized to a Type 15 frigate at Esquimalt and recommissioned on 25 February 1953 as HMCS Algonquin (224). She was not selected for duty in the Korean War and was instead posted to CFB Shearwater on the North Atlantic coast where she spent much of the next 14 years working with Canada's NATO allies. Algonquin returned to Esquimalt in 1967 and was paid off on 1 April 1970. She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1971. source: wikipedia
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