HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69)

HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69) was a River-class destroyer that served the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1946.

She was laid down on 21 August 1933 at John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd., Clydebank, and launched on 12 October 1934. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 6 June 1935 as an Interwar standard E and F-class destroyer with the name HMS Foxhound (H69).

Foxhound was converted to a long-range escort from August 1943, and on completion 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). Qu'Appelle formed part of the 12th Escort Group in June 1944, with the role of protecting shipping from German attacks during the Normandy landings, and together with the destroyers Saskatchewan, Skeena and Restigouche, attacked three German patrol boats off Brest on the night of 5–6 July, with the German patrol boat V715 being sunk. On 11 August Qu'Appelle together with Restigouche , Skeena and Assiniboine was ordered to intercept German shipping escaping from the Biscay ports. While she sank two trawlers, Qu'Appelle was damaged by collision with Skeena and was under repair until September, when she joined the 11th Escort Group for patrols off Iceland. She was decommissioned from the RCN on 27 May 1946.