HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69)
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For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Qu'Appelle.
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| Career |   |
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| Ordered: | 17 Mar 1933 |
| Laid down: | 15 Aug 1933 |
| Launched: | 12 Oct 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 6 June 1935 RN
8 February 1944 RCN |
| Decommissioned: | 27 May 1946 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1405 tons |
| Length: | 329 feet (100 m) |
| Beam: | 33 feet (10.1 m) |
| Draught: | 11 feet (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts;
3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers; 2 Parsons Geared Turbines; 36,000 shp |
| Speed: | 31 kt |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 13(o), 182(r) |
| Armament: | 2x 4.7" guns
2x 6pdr Hotchkiss guns 4x 21" torpedo tubes 2x DC rails 2x small Hedgehog |
| Motto: | |
| Colours: | White and blue |
| Battle Honours: | Atlantic, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Biscay, 1944.
plus other honours as Foxhound. |
| Badge: | Blazon Azure, a bend wavy argent charged with a like bendlet gules, and over all a fox's mask argent. |
HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69) (I) was a World War II River class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Built at John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. Clydebank to be part of the Royal Navy's Interwar standard F class, she served as the HMS Foxhound (H69) until recommissioned into the RCN 8 February 1944. She was decommissioned 27 May 1946.
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