HMS Valentine (i) (L69)

(Casualty List)

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: Admiralty V & W 
Pennant: D49 / L 69 
Mod: Fast escort 
Built by: Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Ordered: Jul, 1916 
Laid down: 7 Aug, 1916 
Launched: 24 Mar, 1917 
Commissioned: 27 Jun, 1917 
Lost: 15 May, 1940 was beached and abandoned off Terneuzen, Netherlands after being bombed on 15 May 1940. Protecting Scheldt ferry
History: Reconstruction to Fast Escort completed on 27 September 1939.  Pennant number was D49 changed to L69 upon completion of this reconstruction.

HMS Valentine (ii) (R17)

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: V class
Pennant: R 17 
Built by: John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Laid down: 8 Oct, 1942 
Launched: 2 Sep, 1943 
Commissioned:  Never commissioned in the Royal Navy.
End service:  
History: Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion on 7 February 1944. 
Career notes: To Canada as HMCS Algonquin

HMCS Algonquin (R17)

Navy: Royal Canadian Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: V 
Pennant: R 17 
Built by: John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Laid down: 8 Oct, 1942 
Launched: 2 Sep, 1943 
Commissioned: 7 Feb, 1944 
End service: 1 Apr, 1970 
History: Decommissioned 6 February 1946.
Conversion to fast anti-submarine escort at Yarrows Ltd. (Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada) started in July 1950.
Re-commissioned on 25 February 1953.
Decommissioned 1 April 1970.
Scrapped in Taiwan in 1971. 
Former name: HMS Valentine (ii) (R17)