HMCS Algonquin (DDH 283)

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Career
Ordered:	mid 1960s
Laid down:	September 1, 1969
Launched:	April 23, 1971
Commissioned:	November 3, 1973
Decommissioned:	N/A
Fate:	N/A
Struck:	N/A
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,146 tonnes
Length:	130 metres
Beam:	15.2 metres
Draught:	7.6 metres
Propulsion:	two shafts, two Pratt & Whitney FT4-A2 gas turbines (37 megawatts at the shaft), two Allison 570-KF gas turbines (5.6 megawatts at the shaft)
Speed:	over 27 knots
Range:	4500 nautical miles
Complement:	295
Armament:	one 29-cell VLS (Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA), one 76 mm/62 OTO Melara (Super Rapid) DP, 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, 1 20 mm Close-In Weapons Systems, two triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes.
Aircraft:	two CH-124 Sea King helicopters
Motto:	À Coup Sûr ("With Sure Stroke")
Colours	Gold and azure blue
Battle Honours	Norway, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Arctic, 1944-1945.
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.

There have been two ships named Algonquin. The first, pennant number R17, was the ex-RN destroyer HMS Valentine, transferred to the RCN in February. She was paid off into reserve in February 1946. After modernization in 1953. she served until finally paid off in April 1970. During this time she wore pennant 224. Algonquin (II) is a Tribal class destroyer. She was commissioned in November 1973, and wears pennant 283.

HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283) is an Iroquois-class destroyer of the Canadian Navy, the second to bear the name.

See HMCS Algonquin for other ships of this name.

[edit] External links

• Official website

Iroquois-class destroyer
Iroquois | Huron | Athabaskan | Algonquin
List of ships of the Canadian Navy