HMCS Huron (G24)

Huron underway
History
Canada
Name	Huron
Namesake	Huron people
Ordered	5 April 1940
Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down	15 July 1941
Launched	25 June 1942
Commissioned	28 July 1943
Decommissioned	9 March 1946
Identification	Pennant number: G24
Recommissioned	1950
Decommissioned	30 April 1963
Identification	Pennant number: DDE 216
Motto	Ready the brave
Honours and awards	Arctic, 1943–1945 English Channel, 1944 Normandy, 1944 Korea, 1951–1953[1]
Fate	Scrapped, La Spezia, 1965
Notes	Colours: Gold and crimson
Badge	Or nicotine bloom Gules seed pod Vert and stamens Or.[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement	1,927 long tons (1,958 t) standard 2,559 long tons (2,600 t) full load
Length	335 ft 6 in (102.3 m) pp 377 ft (114.9 m) oa
Beam	36 ft 6 in (11.1 m)
Draught	13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion	2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty boilers, 44,000 hp (32,811 kW)
Speed	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range	5,700 nmi (10,600 km) at 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement	259
Armament	6 × 4.7 in (119 mm) guns (3×2) 2 × 4 in (102 mm) guns (1×2) 4 × 2-pounder QF guns (1x4) 6 × 20 mm cannon (6X1) 4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes (1×4)

HMCS Huron was a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and the Korean War. She was the first ship to bear this name, entering service in 1943. She was named for the Huron people. During the Second World War the vessel saw service in Operation Neptune in the Bay of Biscay and along the French coast in support of the invasion of Normandy and escorted convoys to the Soviet Union. Following the war, the ship was placed in reserve. The destroyer was activated in 1950 as a training ship, but with the onset of the Korean War, was modernized and deployed twice to Korea. Following the war, Huron reverted to a training ship and took part in Cold War-era North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) naval exercises until being paid off for the final time in 1963 and broken up for scrap in 1965.