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Mackenzie Class – DDE

HMCS Mackenzie (D 261)

Ships

Pennant

Name

Commissioning Date

DELEX

 

 

DDE 261

HMCS Mackenzie

October 6, 1962

1987

 

 

DDE 262

HMCS Saskatchewan

February 16, 1963

1986

 

 

DDE 263

HMCS Yukon

May 25, 1963

1985

 

 

DDE 264

HMCS Qu’Appelle

September 14, 1963

1984

 

 

 

General Information:

(for specific information & history click on the ship’s name, above)

Technical characteristics (as built):

Length: 111,56 meters

Beam: 12,80 meters

Draft: 4,27 meters

Displacement: 2880 tons (full load)

Propulsion: 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 2 geared turbines;

                   2 shafts; 2 propellers; 30000 shp;

Speed: 28 knots, max.

Crew: 228

Aviation/Hangar: none

 

Armament:

 

as built:

1  Vickers Mk.6 3”/70 twin mount forward (Qu’Appelle had 3”/50 FMC forward)

1  FMC Mk.33 3”/50 twin mount aft;

2  Limbo Mk.NC 10 ASW mortars;

2  Mk.2 single ‘K-gun’ launchers with homing torpedoes;

 

 

Destroyer Life Time Extension refit (DELEX) configuration:

1  Vickers Mk.6 3”/70 twin mount forward (Qu’Appelle had 3”/50 FMC forward)

1  FMC Mk.33 3”/50 twin mount aft;

1  Limbo Mk.NC 10 ASW mortar;

2  Mk.32 triple torpedo launcher (Mk.46 Mod.5 torpedoes);

 

 

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