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HMCS ALGONQUIN


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Type: Destroyer

Class: V Class ex-Royal Navy

Displacement: 1710

Length: 362.8

Width: 35.7

Draught: 11.5

Speed: 36

Compliment: 14 Officers and 230 Crew 

Arms: 4-4.7", 8-21" Torpedo Tube (2 x IV), 4-40mm, 4-20mm

Pendant: R17

Builder: John Brown & Co. Ltd.. Glasgow, Scotland

Keel Laid: 08-Oct-42

Date Launched: 02-Sep-43

Date Commissioned: 07-Feb-44

Paid off: 06-Feb-46

Remarks: Ex HMS VALENTINE. Later recommissioned with pendant 224. Finally paid off 1 Apr 70.

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