HMCS Huron, Canada, Department of National Defence
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	15 July 1941
Launched:	25 June 1942
Commissioned:	28 July 1943
Fate:	Scrapped, La Spezia
Struck:	1965
General characteristics
Displacement:	1927 tons (standard) 2559 tons (full load)
Length:	114. La Spezia ( Spèsa in the local dialect of Ligurian) is a city in the Liguria region of northern Italy, at the head of La Spezia 9 m (377 ft)
Beam:	11. 13 m (36. 5 ft)
Draught:	3. 96 m (13 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty boilers, 44,000 hp
Speed:	36. The Admiralty was formerly the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. 25 knots
Range:	5,700 nmi (10,560 km) at 17 knots (31 km/h)
Complement:	240
Armament:	6 - 4. 7 in guns (3x2) 2 - 4-inch (102 mm) guns (1x2) 4 - 2-pdr (4x1) 4 - 40 mm Bofors 4 - 20 mm 4 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (1x4)
Motto:	Ready the brave
Colours:	Gold and crimson
Battle Honours:	Arctic, 1943-1945; English Channel, 1944; Normandy, 1944; Korea, 1951-1953. The 2-pounder gun, officially designated the QF 2-pounder ( QF denoting "quick firing" and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 1 The Bofors 40 mm gun is a famous Anti-aircraft Autocannon designed by the Swedish firm of Bofors.

HMCS Huron (G24) G24/216 was a Destroyer of the Tribal class built by Vickers-Armstrong on the Tyne in the United Kingdom and served in the Royal Canadian Navy. Design history From 1926 all Royal Navy destroyers had descended from a common lineage based upon the prototypes ''Amazon'' and ''Ambuscade''. Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located For the history of Canada's naval forces after 1968 see Canadian Forces Maritime Command The Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN) was the It was the first ship to bear this name. She fought in World War II and the Korean War. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the

Huron was paid off into reserve on 20 April 1963 and scrapped at La Spezia in August 1965. La Spezia ( Spèsa in the local dialect of Ligurian) is a city in the Liguria region of northern Italy, at the head of La Spezia

See also: List of ships of the Canadian Navy