HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69) was a River-class destroyer

Canadian River class destroyer

The River class was a class of fourteen destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy that served before and during the Second World War. They were named after Canadian rivers.-Description:...

 that served the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

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 from 1944-1946.

She was laid down on 21 August 1933 at John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd., Clydebank

Clydebank

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, and launched on 12 October 1934. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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on 6 June 1935 as an Interwar standard with the name .

She was decommissioned by the Royal Navy on 8 February 1944 and transferred to Canada; she was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on that day as HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69). She was decommissioned from the RCN on 27 May 1946.