HMCS Algonquin (R17)

Navy Royal Canadian Navy
Type Destroyer
Class
Pennant R 17 
Built by John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered 1 Sep, 1941 
Laid down 8 Oct, 1942 
Launched 2 Sep, 1943 
Commissioned 7 Feb, 1944 
De-Commissioned 1 Apr, 1946
   
History Decommissioned 6 February 1946.
Conversion to fast anti-submarine escort at Yarrows Ltd. (Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada) started in July 1950.
Recommissioned on 25 February 1953.
Decommissioned 1 April 1970.
Scrapped in Taiwan in 1971.

Commanding Officers:
A/Lt.Cdr. Desmond William Piers, RCN
22 December 1943 - 19 April 1945
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 26 March 1944

Lt.Cdr. Philip Edwin Haddon, RCN
20 April 1945 - 6 February 1946 

 

Former name HMS Valentine (ii)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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