HMS Valentine

HMS Valentine (i) (L69) (ii) (R17) HMCS Algonquin (R17)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	Admiralty V & W
Pennant:	D49 / L 69
Mod:	Fast escort
Built by:	Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.)
Ordered:	Jul, 1916
Laid down:	7 Aug, 1916
Launched:	24 Mar, 1917
Commissioned:	27 Jun, 1917
Lost:	15 May, 1940 was beached and abandoned off Terneuzen, Netherlands after being bombed on 15 May 1940. Protecting Scheldt ferry
History:	Reconstruction to Fast Escort completed on 27 September 1939. Pennant number was D49 changed to L69 upon completion of this reconstruction.

HMS Valentine (ii) (R17)

Navy:	Royal Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	V class
Pennant:	R 17
Built by:	John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland)
Laid down:	8 Oct, 1942
Launched:	2 Sep, 1943
Commissioned:	Never commissioned in the Royal Navy.
End service:
History:	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion on 7 February 1944.
Career notes:	To Canada as HMCS Algonquin

HMCS Algonquin (R17)

Navy:	Royal Canadian Navy
Type:	Destroyer
Class:	V
Pennant:	R 17
Built by:	John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland)
Laid down:	8 Oct, 1942
Launched:	2 Sep, 1943
Commissioned:	7 Feb, 1944
End service:	1 Apr, 1970
History:	Decommissioned 6 February 1946. Conversion to fast anti-submarine escort at Yarrows Ltd. (Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada) started in July 1950. Re-commissioned on 25 February 1953. Decommissioned 1 April 1970. Scrapped in Taiwan in 1971.
Former name:	HMS Valentine (ii) (R17)