HMCS Huron (DDH 281)

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Career	Image:Naval Jack of Canada.svg
Image:HMCS Huron (DDH 281).jpg
Ordered:	mid 1960s
Laid down:	June 1, 1969
Launched:	April 9, 1971
Commissioned:	December 16, 1972
Decommissioned:	March 31, 2005 (In reserve)
Fate:	Laid up in CFB Esquimalt
Struck:	N/A
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4700 tons or 5100 tons full loaded
Length:	129 metres
Beam:	15 metres
Draught:	4.7 metres
Propulsion:	two shafts, two Pratt & Whitney FT4-A2 gas turbines (37 megawatts at the shaft), two Allison 570-KF gas turbines (5.6 megawatts at the shaft)
Speed:	29 knots or 54 km/h
Range:	4500 nautical miles
Complement:	285
Armament:	1 29-cell VLS (Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA), 1 76 mm/62 OTO Melara (Super Rapid) DP, 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns, 1 20 mm Close-In Weapons Systems, 2 triple Mark-46 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes firing Mark-46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft:	2 CH-124 Sea King helicopters
Motto:	Ready the Brave

HMCS Huron (DDG 281) was an Iroquois-class destroyer of the Canadian Navy, decommissioned in 2005. She is now in reserve. On November 16, 2006, it was announced that the ship will be sunk during target practice sometime in 2007, pending environmental approval.

The second ship to bear the name (first Huron was a Tribal-class destroyer) and built at the Marine Industries, Sorel Quebec. The ship's main role was anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) during the Cold War and played a role during the Gulf War in 1991. It was also sent to Adriatic Sea in 1993. In 1999, the ship was used to stop illegal migration into Canada.

It was retro fitted in 1994 for TRUMP configration and is now in reserve mode awaiting disposal.

The ship's crest consists of a flower and plant forms of fighting emblems, such as the Roses of York and Lancaster, the Shamrock of Ireland, and a Maple Leaf.

There are plans to use her as target practice in May 2007. She will be placed a hundred kilometres out into the pacific and sunk.

See HMCS Huron for other ships of this name.