HMCS Sioux (R64)

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Career
HMCS Sioux (R64) © Canada, Department of National Defence
Ordered:
Laid down:	1942
Launched:	1943
Commissioned:	21-Feb-1944
Decommissioned:	30-Oct-1963
Fate:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1710 tonnes
Length:	362.8 feet
Beam:
Draught:
Propulsion:
Speed:	36 knots
Range:
Complement:
Armament:	2 4.7" twin mounts (forward), 4 40 mm single, 1 40 mm dual guns, 4 21" TT, 2 Squid triple ASW mortars
Aircraft:
Class:	V Class ex-Royal Navy
Breadth:	35.7 feet
Draught:	11.5 feet
Pendant Number:	R64
Number of Officers:	14
Number of Crew:	230
Builder:	John Brown & Co. Ltd.. Glasgow, Scotland
Colours:	White and vermillion
Motto:	Then I will fight
Battle Honours	Normandy, 1944; Arctic, 1944-1945; Atlantic, 1945; Korea, 1950-1952.
Badge:	Blazon Argent, a Sioux Indian head proper facing the dexter and wearing an appropriate feather head-dress of a Sioux Chief.

HMCS Sioux is a V-Class Canadian World War II destroyer, formerly of the Royal Navy HMS Vixen. She was originally HMS Vixen, and she commissioned into the RCN in February 1944. She wore pennant R64 until she was paid off into reserve shortly after the war. She emerged again, fully modernized, in 1950. She wore pennant 225 until she was finally paid off in October 1963.