Royal Canadian Navy - Destroyer

G 89 / DDE 217  -  HMCS Iroquois

 

 

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DDE-217 G-89 HMCS Iroquois UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

Type, Class:

 

Destroyer - DD / UK Tribal - class

later converted to a Destroyer Escort - DDE

Builder:

 

Vickers Armstrong, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.

STATUS:

 

Ordered: April 5, 1940

Laid down: July 15, 1941 (as Athabaskan)

Launched: June 25, 1942 (as Iroquois by Mrs. Vincent Massey)

Commissioned: November 30, 1942 (as G 89)

paid off February 22, 1946

recommissioned: May 27, 1946

paid off: September 30, 1949

refitted and converted to a Destroyer Escort

recommissioned: October 21, 1951 (as DDE 217)

paid off: November 19, 1957

recommissioned: October 17, 1958

Decommissioned: October 24, 1962

Fate: sold for scrap in 1965; scrapped

Homeport:

 

-

Namesake:

 

The Iroquois, also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse",

are a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America.

Ship’s Motto:

 

RELENTLESS IN CHASE

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > UK Tribal - class Destroyer

 

ship images

 

G-89 HMCS Iroquois DDE-217 Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

 

HMCS Iroquois G-89 DDE-217 UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

 

DDE-217 HMCS Iroquois Tribal class destroyer

 

HMCS Iroquois DDE-217 G-89 UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

 

DDE-217 HMCS Iroquois G-89 UK Tribal class destroyer Vickers Armstrong Newcastle upon Tyne

 

 

HMCS Iroquois (G 89 / DDE 217):

 

Battle Honors:

WWII: Atlantic 1943, Arctic 1943-45, Biscay 1943-44, Norway 1945

Korea: 1952-53

 

patches

 

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