HMCS Yukon (DDE 263)

HMCS Yukon was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces. She was the first Canadian naval unit to carry the name. She was named for the Yukon River that runs from British Columbia through Yukon and into Alaska in the United States.

For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Yukon.

Crew portrait in July 1964
History
Canada
NameYukon
NamesakeYukon River
Ordered1957
BuilderBurrard Dry Dock Ltd., North Vancouver
Laid down25 October 1959
Launched27 July 1961
Commissioned25 May 1963
Decommissioned3 December 1993
Refit1984–85 (DELEX)
IdentificationDDE 263
Motto"Only the fit survive"
FateSold to the San Diego Oceans Foundation. Sank at Sunken Harbor off San Diego in July 2000.
NotesGules, a bend wavy or charged with a like bendlet azure, and over all a Malamute sled dog, proper
General characteristics
Class and typeMackenzie-class destroyer
Displacement2,880 t (2,830 long tons) full load
Length366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught13 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
Speed28 kn (51.9 km/h; 32.2 mph)
Complement228 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

Entering service in 1963, she was primarily used as a training ship on the west coast. She was decommissioned in 1993 and sold for use as an artificial reef and sunk as such at Sunken Harbor off San Diego, California in 2000.

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