Career
HMCS Micmac was launched on 18 September 1943, named in honour of the Mi'kmaq people of Nova Scotia, continuing the tradition of naming Canadian Tribal Class destroyers after Canadian First Nations. After many difficulties, especially the delayed arrival of the propulsion system from Inglis in Toronto, Micmac was commissioned on 18 September 1945, captained by Lieutenant Commander R.L. Hennessy, DSC, RCN. Although the war she was intended for had ended the previous May, Micmac was nonetheless the very first destroyer ever constructed in Canada. At an estimated cost of $8,500,000.00 CAD, roughly four times what it cost the RN to build a Tribal, she was also the single most expensive piece of military or naval equipment produced in Canada up to that time.
Commissioned into a rapidly shrinking navy and built for a form of naval war that could never again occur, Micmac was already obsolescent. In fact, the remaining four RN Tribal class destroyers that had managed to survive World War II were themselves paid off to disposal at the war's end and all were scrapped by 1949. Nonetheless, while the rest of Canada demobilized and dozens of other HMC Ships paid off into reserve or to disposal, Micmac's crew completed her workups and the ship entered into the routine existence of a peacetime navy with an horizon empty of any potential enemy.
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