HMCS Mackenzie

	HMCS Mackenzie (DDE 261) off San Diego, in 1992
History
Canada
Name	Mackenzie
Namesake	Mackenzie River
Ordered	1957
Builder	Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal
Laid down	15 December 1958
Launched	25 May 1961
Commissioned	6 October 1962
Decommissioned	3 August 1993
Refit	1985 (DELEX)
Identification	Classification DDE 261
Motto	"By virtue and valour"
Fate	Sold in March 1995 to the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia Scuttled off Sidney on 16 September 1995.
Badge	Gules, a bend wavy argent upon which a like bendlet azure, and over all a lion rampant or, armed and langued of the third, charged on the shoulder with a hurt upon which a representation of a compass rose of eight points argent, the vertical and horizontal pointers extending beyond the perimeter of the hurt.
General characteristics
Class and type	Mackenzie-class destroyer
Displacement	2,880 t (2,830 long tons) full load
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	13 ft 6 in (4.1 m)
Installed power	2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 30,000 shp (22,000 kW);
Propulsion	2 shafts; 2 × English-Electric geared steam turbines;
Speed	28 kn (51.9 km/h)
Complement	290 regular, 170–210 training
Sensors and ; processing systems	1 × SPS-12 air search radar; 1 × SPS-10B surface search radar; 1 × Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar; 1 × SQS-501 high frequency bottom profiler sonar; 1 × SQS-502 high frequency mortar control sonar; 1 × SQS-503 hull mounted active search sonar; 1 × SQS-11 hull mounted active search sonar;
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	1 × DAU (replaced by SRD 501) high frequency direction finder; 1 × WLR 1C radar analyzer; 1 × UPD 501 radar detector;
Armament	1 × 3-inch/70 Mk.6 Vickers twin mount forward; 1 × 3-inch/50 Mk.33 FMC twin mount aft; 2 × Mk NC 10 Limbo ASW mortars; 2 × single Mk.2 "K-gun" launchers with homing torpedoes; 1 × 103 mm Bofors illumination rocket launcher;

HMCS Mackenzie was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces. She was the lead ship of her class and is the first Canadian naval unit to carry this name. The ship was named for the Mackenzie River, the largest river system in Canada and runs primarily through the Northwest Territories.

Entering service in 1962, Mackenzie served until 1993, mainly as a training ship. She was sold for use as an artificial reef in 1995 and sunk as such the same year off the coast of British Columbia.

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