HMCS Algonquin (R17)
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HMCS Algonquin was a V-class destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion during the Second World War. She saw service in the Secon
Sister ship HMCS Sioux in the 1950s
Algonquin's 4.7-inch gun crew during the Invasion of Normandy.
Valentine's bell aboard the Iroquois-class destroyer Algonquin
Type 15 frigate
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The Type 15 frigate was a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy. They were conversions based on the hulls of World War II-era destroyers built to the standard War Emergency Progra
HMCS Algonquin (R17)
…to her homeport at Esquimalt, British Columbia. The destroyer was paid off into reserve and laid up on 6 February 1946. Algonquin was modernized to a Type 15 frigate at Esquimalt and recommissioned on 25 February 1953 with the hull number 224. She was not selected for duty in the Korean War and was instead posted…
HMS Relentless after her Type 15 conversion
Late-conversion HMS Troubridge with the revised bridge
Canadian type 15 conversion HMCS Crescent