Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p HMCS Algonquin was a V-Class World War II destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the carriers that bombed the Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. She was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. She was modernized in 1953 and saw out the rest of her career in the Atlantic, being decommissioned in 1970.. }
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- HMCS_Algonquin_(R17) abstract "HMCS Algonquin was a V-Class World War II destroyer, laid down for the Royal Navy as HMS Valentine (R17) and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion. She saw service in the Second World War escorting the carriers that bombed the Tirpitz in March 1944 and providing naval gunfire support to the Normandy landings. She was to participate in the Pacific Campaign but the war ended before her arrival in that theatre. She was modernized in 1953 and saw out the rest of her career in the Atlantic, being decommissioned in 1970.".