HMCS Algonquin (DDG 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 one 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.

HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283) is an Iroquois-class destroyer of the Canadian Navy.

She was named after HMCS Algonquin, a V-Class Canadian World War II destroyer.

The Algonquin is a member of the Iroquois class, commonly called "280's" or the "Tribal class" by Canadian Forces personnel. Algonquin wears pennant 283 and was commissioned in November 1973.

See HMCS Algonquin for other ships of this name.

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[edit] External links

• Official website

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