HMCS Yukon (DDE 263)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Yukon.
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.
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Crew portrait in July 1964 | |
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Name | Yukon |
Namesake | Yukon River |
Ordered | 1957 |
Builder | Burrard Dry Dock Ltd., North Vancouver |
Laid down | 25 October 1959 |
Launched | 27 July 1961 |
Commissioned | 25 May 1963 |
Decommissioned | 3 December 1993 |
Refit | 1984–85 (DELEX) |
Identification | DDE 263 |
Motto | "Only the fit survive"[1] |
Fate | Sold to the San Diego Oceans Foundation. Sank at Sunken Harbor off San Diego in July 2000. |
Notes | Gules, a bend wavy or charged with a like bendlet azure, and over all a Malamute sled dog, proper[1] |
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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) |
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Speed | 28 kn (51.9 km/h; 32.2 mph) |
Complement | 228 regular, 170–210 training |
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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.