HMCS Qu'Appelle (DDE 264)
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HMCS Qu'Appelle was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. The ship's insignia and logo was the head of a fox facing forward centered in a diagonal line double white with a red center sqiggley line from the top left to bottom right. The moniker of the ship was "Follow the Fox".
HMCS Qu'Appelle (DDE 264) at Pearl Harbor, in 1990 | |
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Name | Qu'Appelle |
Namesake | Qu'Appelle River |
Ordered | 1957 |
Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
Laid down | 14 January 1960 |
Launched | 2 May 1962 |
Commissioned | 14 September 1963 |
Decommissioned | 31 July 1992 |
Refit | 1982 (DELEX) |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944, Normandy 1944, Biscay 1944[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrapping in 1994 |
Badge | Azure, a bend wavy argent charged with a like bendlet gules, and over all a fox's mask argent[1] |
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Class and type | Mackenzie-class destroyer |
Displacement | 2,880 t (2,830 long tons) full load |
Length | 366 ft (111.6 m) |
Beam | 42 ft (12.8 m) |
Draught | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
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Speed | 28 kn (51.9 km/h; 32.2 mph) |
Complement | 228 regular, 170–210 training |
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She is the second Canadian naval unit to carry the name HMCS Qu'Appelle. Qu'Appelle was named for the Qu'Appelle River which runs through Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada. Entering service in 1963, the ship was largely used as a training ship on the west coast. She was decommissioned in 1994 and sold for scrapping.