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Royal Canadian Navy - Destroyer
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G 89 / DDE 217 - HMCS Iroquois
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Type,
Class:
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Destroyer - DD /
UK Tribal - class later converted to a Destroyer Escort - DDE |
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Builder:
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Vickers Armstrong,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. |
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STATUS:
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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 |
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Homeport:
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Namesake:
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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. |
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Ship’s
Motto:
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RELENTLESS IN
CHASE |
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)
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ship
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HMCS
Iroquois (G 89 / DDE 217): Battle
Honors: WWII: Atlantic
1943, Arctic 1943-45, Biscay 1943-44, Norway 1945 Korea:
1952-53 |
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