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DDE 262 -
HMCS Saskatchewan
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HMCS Saskatchewan (DDE 262)
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Type,
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Mackenzie Class Destroyer
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Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd.; Victoria, B.C., Canada
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Laid down: October 29, 1959 Launched: February 1, 1961 Commissioned:
February 16, 1963 Decommissioned: December 3, 1993 Fate: sunk off Snake Island, Nanaimo, B.C. as an
artificial reef; position: 49 12.96 N / 123
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> Ready and Confident <
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament,
Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO
>> Destroyer
Escort / Mackenzie Class |
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Information & History
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The Saskatchewan was launched
by the Victoria Machinery Depot Company (hull and superstructure), and completed
by Yarrow Ltd. in Esquimalt. She was commissioned on 16 February 1963, at
Esquimalt, the second of the Mackenzie class to enter service. She transited the Panama Canal
on 30 April, 1963, en route to Halifax where she arrive on 3 June, but left again
for the west coast on 20 October, arriving at Esquimalt on 29 November. It
had been a busy year for Saskatchewan, with two transits of the Panama Canal,
four Atlantic crossings and participation in a major NATO exercise. Late in
1965, she was fitted with an eight-foot square bridge (made of aluminum and
glass) atop her regular bridge, as part of an investigation into improved
ways of conning a ship. In February 1970, she returned
to Atlantic command with the crew of Kootenay, relieving Nipigon as flagship
of the (NATO) Standing Naval Force Atlantic. Mike Young, her executive
officer during this period, recalls a social gaffe when the pre-wetting
system was inadvertently turned on during a quarterdeck cocktail party in St.
Johns! Saskatchewan returned to the
West Coast in 1973. She commenced her DELEX (Destroyer Life Extension) refit
on 27 May 1985 and returned to service on 17 June 1986. That August she was
part of a Canadian squadron, which visited Australia for the RANs 75th
birthday celebrations. In her final years,
Saskatchewan was a member of Training Group Pacific, instructing as many as
40 officer cadets at a time in the finer point of ship-handling, navigation,
and marine and combat systems engineering. The ship completed a minor
refit in 1990, which included the installation of an environmentally safe
black-water system designed to reduce ship-generated pollution. |
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