HMCS Kootenay (H75)

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HMCS Kootenay, Canada, Department of National Defence
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Commissioned:	April 1943
Fate:	Decommissioned in October 1945.
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Motto:	We are as one
Badge:	Blazon Argent, three cotises in bend wavy azure, over all a crescent sable debruised by an Indian fish spear-head gules, bound around the hilt with thongs argent
Colours:	Red and white
Battle Honours:	Atlantic, 1943-1945; Normandy, 1944; English Channel, 1944; Biscay, 1944.

HMCS Kootenay (H75) was a Destroyer of the River class which served in the Royal Canadian Navy. It is the first ship to bear this name. Kootenay (11) is a member of the Restigouche class escorts. She was commissioned in March 1959, and wears pennant 158. She has subsequently undergone conversion to an Improved Restigouche class destroyer.

See also: List of ships of the Canadian Navy

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