HMS Kempenfelt/HMCS Assiniboine a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.

Unidentified personnel firing a two-pounder anti-aircraft gun aboard HMCS Assiniboine, which is escorting a troop convoy from Halifax to Britain, 10 July 1940.

Royal Navy destroyer HMS KEMPENFELT stationary, coastal waters. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939 as HMCS Assiniboine.

Late-war picture of HMCS Assiniboine. Note the cylindrical Type 271 radar above the bridge, the Hedgehog mortar shells to the right of 'A' gun and the 20 Oerlikon mount on the bridge wing.

A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939 and renamed HMCS Assiniboine. During World War II, she served as a convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic, sinking one German submarine by ramming, on anti-submarine patrols during the invasion of Normandy, and was employed as a troop transport after VE Day for returning Canadian servicemen, before being decommissioned in mid-1945. Assiniboine was sold for scrap in 1945, but she ran aground while being towed to the breakers and was not broken up until 1952.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Kempenfelt_(I18)

 

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