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HMCS Algonquin (R17)
HMCS ''Algonquin'' was a V-class Second World War destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS ''Valentine'' (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the aircraft carriers that bombed the in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. She was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. She was modernized in 1953 and saw out the rest of her career in the Atlantic, being decommissioned in 1970.
== Second World War ==
One of ''Algonquin''s first assignments was as part of the British Home Fleet's 26th Destroyer Flotilla. In March 1944, with the flotilla, she formed part of the escort for the aircraft carriers that bombed the German battleship ''Tirpitz'' in Operation Tungsten. In April of that year she escorted a strike force hunting for German ships near the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. ''Algonquin'' left Scapa Flow in May to participate in Operation Neptune, the naval component of the Normandy invasion and later provided gunfire support to the landings on Juno Beach. Upon the operation's conclusion she returned to Scapa Floe to resume he usual duties. In July she formed part of the escort for the British aircraft carriers during the Operation Mascot raid against ''Tirpitz''.
In August ''Algonquin'' participated in the rescue of the crew of the carrier , which had been torpedoed and badly damaged during the Operation Goodwood strikes on ''Tirpitz'', and rescued 200 men. In the winter of 1944/5 she helped to escort arctic convoy JW 63/RW 63 from Scotland to Kola Bay, Russia and back.
''Algonquin'' arrived in Canada in February 1945 for a tropicalization refit at Halifax. Work was complete by August when she departed to join the British Pacific Fleet, though she did not arrive by the war's end, being in the Eastern Mediterranean on VJ-day. Following a brief stop in Alexandria, Egypt she crossed the Indian and Pacific Oceans to her new base at Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard. Once there she was placed into reserve and remained unused for several years.
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