HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283)

	HMCS Algonquin in 2004
History
Canada
Name	Algonquin
Namesake	Algonquin
Builder	Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon
Laid down	1 September 1969
Launched	23 April 1971
Commissioned	3 November 1973
Decommissioned	11 June 2015
In service	1973–2015
Out of service	2015
Refit	11 October 1991
Stricken	2015
Homeport	CFB Esquimalt
Identification	MMSI number: 316089000; Callsign: CZJX;
Motto	À Coup Sûr (With sure stroke)
Honours and; awards	Norway, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Arctic, 1944–45, Arabian Sea
Fate	Sold for scrapping 27 November 2015 to be completed in Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Status	Scrapped
Notes	Colours: Gold and azure blue
Badge	Sable, a base barry wavy argent and azure of four, from which issues an Algonquin hunter's arm embowed proper wearing arm and wrist bands argent and holding a fish spear in bend argent transfixing an eel or.
General characteristics
Class and type	Iroquois-class destroyer
Displacement	5,100 tonnes (5,000 long tons)
Length	129.8 m (425.9 ft)
Beam	15.2 m (49.9 ft)
Draught	4.7 m (15.4 ft)
Propulsion	COGOG – 2 shaft; 2 × Allison 570-KF cruise gas turbines 5.6 MW (7,500 hp); 2 × Pratt & Whitney FT4A-2 boost gas turbines (37 MW (50,000 hp));
Speed	29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi)
Complement	280
Sensors and ; processing systems	Signaal AN/SPQ 501 DA-08 radar; Signaal LW-08 AN/SPQ 502 radar; SQS-510 hull sonar; SQS-510 VDS sonar;
Armament	32 × VLS, Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA SAMs; 1 × 76 mm/62 OTO Melara; 6 × 324 mm (12.75 in) tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes; 1 × Phalanx CIWS (Block 1); 2 × M2 Browning machine guns;
Aircraft carried	2 × CH-124 Sea King helicopters
Aviation facilities	Hangar and flight deck

HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283) was an Iroquois-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1973 to 2015.

Algonquin was the fourth ship of her class which is sometimes referred to as the Tribal class or the 280 class. She is the second vessel to use the designation HMCS Algonquin. Algonquin carried the hull classification symbol DDG.

Algonquin was originally designed to be primarily an anti-submarine destroyer. The Iroquois-class destroyers were the first ships in the Royal Canadian Navy (other than the Protecteur class) to carry multiple helicopters, and were the first ships to be powered entirely by gas turbines in a COGOG (Combined Gas Or Gas) arrangement. Algonquin underwent a major refit called the Tribal Class Update and Modernization Program (TRUMP) from 1987 to 1991 and emerged as an area air defence destroyer.^[5]

She was assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) and was homeported at CFB Esquimalt.

^ ^a ^b ^c Arbuckle, p. 5
^ "DHH – HMCS Algonquin". Department of National Defence. Retrieved 18 January 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "South-West Asia Theatre Honours". Prime Minister of Canada. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
^ Pugliese, David (24 April 2015). "Paying off ceremonies to be held for two destroyers, one replenishment ship – fourth ship to be paid off at a later date". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
^ "Iroquois Class". hazegray.org. Retrieved 18 January 2016.

[a1-1] Arbuckle, p. 5

[2] "DHH – HMCS Algonquin". Department of National Defence. Retrieved 18 January 2016.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] "South-West Asia Theatre Honours". Prime Minister of Canada. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.

[4] Pugliese, David (24 April 2015). "Paying off ceremonies to be held for two destroyers, one replenishment ship – fourth ship to be paid off at a later date". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 24 April 2015.

[5] "Iroquois Class". hazegray.org. Retrieved 18 January 2016.

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History
HMCS Algonquin in 2004
Canada
Name	Algonquin
Namesake	Algonquin
Builder	Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon
Laid down	1 September 1969
Launched	23 April 1971
Commissioned	3 November 1973
Decommissioned	11 June 2015^[4]
In service	1973–2015
Out of service	2015
Refit	11 October 1991
Stricken	2015
Homeport	CFB Esquimalt
Identification	MMSI number: 316089000 Callsign: CZJX
Motto	À Coup Sûr (With sure stroke)^[1]
Honours and awards	Norway, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Arctic, 1944–45,^[1]^[2] Arabian Sea^[3]
Fate	Sold for scrapping 27 November 2015 to be completed in Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Status	Scrapped
Notes	Colours: Gold and azure blue
Badge	Sable, a base barry wavy argent and azure of four, from which issues an Algonquin hunter's arm embowed proper wearing arm and wrist bands argent and holding a fish spear in bend argent transfixing an eel or.^[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Iroquois-class destroyer
Displacement	5,100 tonnes (5,000 long tons)
Length	129.8 m (425.9 ft)
Beam	15.2 m (49.9 ft)
Draught	4.7 m (15.4 ft)
Propulsion	COGOG – 2 shaft 2 × Allison 570-KF cruise gas turbines 5.6 MW (7,500 hp) 2 × Pratt & Whitney FT4A-2 boost gas turbines (37 MW (50,000 hp))
Speed	29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Range	4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi)
Complement	280
Sensors and processing systems	Signaal AN/SPQ 501 DA-08 radar Signaal LW-08 AN/SPQ 502 radar SQS-510 hull sonar SQS-510 VDS sonar
Armament	32 × VLS, Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA SAMs 1 × 76 mm/62 OTO Melara 6 × 324 mm (12.75 in) tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes 1 × Phalanx CIWS (Block 1) 2 × M2 Browning machine guns
Aircraft carried	2 × CH-124 Sea King helicopters
Aviation facilities	Hangar and flight deck