HMCS Iroquois (G89)
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| Career (Canada) |  |
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| Name: | HMCS Iroquois |
| Namesake: | Iroquois |
| Laid down: | September 19, 1940 |
| Launched: | September 23, 1941 |
| Commissioned: | November 30, 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | October 24, 1962 |
| Out of service: | February 22, 1946 |
| Reinstated: | October 1951 |
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| Notes: | Served from 1951 to 1962 with the designation DDE 217. |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,927 tonnes |
| Length: | 377 feet (115 m) |
| Beam: | 37.5 feet (11.4 m) |
| Draught: | 11.2 feet (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, 3-Admiralty 3 drum type boilers, 2-Parsons geared steam turbines, 44,000 shp |
| Speed: | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
| Notes: | Badge ~ Blazon Or, the head of an Iroquois brave, couped at the base of the neck, properly coloured and wearing two eagle feathers in his hair and a gold ring pendant from the ear. |
HMCS Iroquois G89/217 was a Destroyer of the Tribal class built in the United Kingdom and served in the Royal Canadian Navy. It is the first ship to bear this name.
