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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| VALENTINE |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1944 |
02/09/1943 |
28/02/1944 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Naval Destroyer
| Steel Steam Turbine 2 |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank |
Clydebank |
601 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 1808 disp |
362 ft 9 in |
35 ft 8 in |
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14 ft 6 in |
| Engine builder |
John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank |
| Engine detail |
| 2-shaft Parsons geared turbines, 2 Admiralty, 3-drum boilers, oil, 40,000shp giving 36.75 knots |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Royal Navy |
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| Other names |
| HMCS ALGONQUIN |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 28/12/1943 |
| Vessel history |
Destroyer, S,T,U,V and W Class - R.17
Ordered as Kempenfelt and name changed in 1942
Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion
Commissioned 28/2/1944 as HMCS Algonquin
1953 converted to frigate by Yarrows Ltd, Esquimalt, British Columbia. Pennant 224. Decommissioned 1/04/1970. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1971 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| Towed from Victoria, BC 21/4/1971 for scrapping at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. |
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Algonquin
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Algonquin taking off some of Nabobs crew 1944
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Algonquin 224
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