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HMCS Huron (G 24)

Destroyer of the Tribal class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTribal 
PennantG 24 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Parsons 
Ordered5 Apr, 1940 
Laid down15 Jul, 1941 
Launched25 Jun, 1942 
Commissioned19 Jul, 1943 
End service30 Apr, 1963 
Loss position
 
HistoryPennant numbers: G24 June 1943 - December 1949; DDE216 January 1950 - August 1965

Decommissioned 30 April 1963.
Sold for scrap in 1965.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Herbert Sharples Rayner, DSC, RCN
19 July 1943 - 22 September 1944
Promoted to Cdr. on 1 July 1944

Lt. Eric Phillip Earnshaw, RCN
23 October 1944 - 21 February 1946 

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