Notes: Namesake: Algonquin
Builder: Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon
Laid down: 1 September 1969
Launched: 23 April 1971
Commissioned: 3 November 1973
Refit: 11 October 1991 (TRUMP)
Homeport: CFB Esquimalt
Class and type: Iroquois-class destroyer
Displacement: 5100 t
Length: 129.8 m (425.9 ft)
Beam: 15.2 m (49.9 ft)
Draught: 4.7 m (15.4 ft)
Propulsion: COGOG - 2 shaft
2x Allison 570-KF cruise gas turbines (5.6 MW)
2x Pratt & Whitney FT4A-2 boost gas turbines (37 MW)
Speed: 29 kn (53.7 km/h)
Range: 4,500 nmi (8,334.0 km)
Complement: 280
Sensors and processing systems: Signaal AN/SPQ 501 DA-08 radar
Signaal LW-08 AN/SPQ 502 radar
SQS-510 hull sonar
SQS-510 VDS sonar
Armament: 32 x VLS, Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA SAMs
1x 76 mm/62 OTO Melara
6x 12.75 in tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes
1x Phalanx CIWS (Block 1)
2x M2 Browning machine guns
Aircraft carried: 2x CH-124 s:"Sea King helicopters"
Aviation facilities: hangar and flight deck