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DDE 261 - HMCS Mackenzie
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HMCS
Mackenzie (DDE 261)
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Mackenzie Class Destroyer
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Canadian Vickers Ltd.; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Laid down: December 15, 1958 Launched: May 25, 1961 Commissioned:
October 6, 1962 Decommissioned: August 3, 1993 Fate: sunk off
Gooch Island, Sidney, B.C. as an artificial reef; September 16, 1995; position: 48 40.094 N / 123
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> By Virtue and Valor <
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(Measures, Propulsion, Armament,
Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO
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Escort / Mackenzie Class |
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The lead ship of the class,
Mackenzie was built by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, and commissioned on 6
October 1962. Arriving in Halifax on 15 October, she spent the first five
months of her service life operating from that port, perhaps as a result of the
"Cuban Missile Crisis," but on 2 March 1963 left for Esquimalt and
never returned to Halifax. For the next 23 years she
roamed the Pacific, either as a unit of the Second Canadian Destroyer
Squadron or as part of Training Group Pacific. During the first three weeks
of March 1964, she took part in the Commonwealth exercise JET 64 in the
Indian Ocean. On 22 February 1965, left Esquimalt with Saskatchewan for a
three-month cruise to the Far East. On 4 May 1970, Mackenzie along
with Provider and Yukon headed across the Pacific once more. Exercises were
carried out with units of the Australian, New Zealand, Japanese and American
navies (with appropriate port visits) before the ships headed home. A career highlight occurred on
30 June 1973, when Mackenzies crew boarded and siezed the M/V Marysville,
resulting in a million dollar "drug bust." On 25 May 1986, she began her
DELEX refit, returning to service on 16 January, 1987. On 28 April 1988,
Mackenzie, accompanied by Yukon and four other Canadian ships, departed for a
Pacific Rim tour, during which they exercised with units of the Japanese,
Korean and American navies. After stopping in Hawaii on 21 June, the ships
headed for home. Between 24 April and 30 June
1988, she, along with other Canadian units, participated in SAMPLOY 89, the
exercises being carried out between port visits in the United States, Mexico,
Ecuador, and Costa Rica. After 30 years of service,
during which she visited 96 foreign ports and sailed 845,640 nautical miles,
she was decommissioned on 3 August 1993. In early March 1995, it was
announced that Mackenzie would be sold to the Artificial Reef Society of BC.
The society made the ship environmentally safe, then scuttled her near Rum
Island off Sidney, B.C., on 16 September 1995. Prior to this, she had been
used as a set for a TV program. Painted in USN colours, she was the
centrepiece of an episode of the program "X-Files" which was shown
nationally on 10 March 1996. |
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