HMCS Iroquois (G89)

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HMCS Iroquois
Career (Canada)
Name: HMCS Iroquois
Namesake: Iroquois
Laid down: September 19, 1940
Launched: September 23, 1941
Commissioned: November 30, 1942
Decommissioned: October 24, 1962
Out of service: February 22, 1946
Reinstated: October 1951
Honours and
awards:
  • Atlantic 1943
  • Arctic 1943-45
  • Biscay 1943-44
  • Norway 1945
  • Korea 1952-53
Notes: Served from 1951 to 1962 with the designation DDE 217.
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,927 tonnes
Length: 377 feet (115 m)
Beam: 37.5 feet (11.4 m)
Draught: 11.2 feet (3.4 m)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, 3-Admiralty 3 drum type boilers, 2-Parsons geared steam turbines, 44,000 shp
Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h)
Notes: Badge ~ Blazon Or, the head of an Iroquois brave, couped at the base of the neck, properly coloured and wearing two eagle feathers in his hair and a gold ring pendant from the ear.

HMCS Iroquois G89/217 was a Destroyer of the Tribal class built in the United Kingdom and served in the Royal Canadian Navy. It is the first ship to bear this name.

The HMCS Iroquois as seen under pendant DDE 217

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