Named after an Indian tribe in North America, HNCS Huron was the third out of eight Canadian tribal class destroyers. She was laid down at a shipyard in Newcastle in 1941. The ship served within the third destroyer flotilla and, as a part of it, participated in Escort in six northern convoys in 1943 and 1944. In the spring of 1944, she was engaged in operations against French coastal positions, and in 1945 she escorted convoys to Murmansk again.