HMCS Mackenzie (DDE 261)

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

HMCS Mackenzie (DDE 261) off San Diego, in 1992
History
Canada
NameMackenzie
NamesakeMackenzie River
Ordered1957
BuilderCanadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal
Laid down15 December 1958
Launched25 May 1961
Commissioned6 October 1962
Decommissioned3 August 1993
Refit1985 (DELEX)
IdentificationClassification DDE 261
Motto"By virtue and valour"[1]
FateSold in March 1995 to the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia Scuttled off Sidney on 16 September 1995.
BadgeGules, a bend wavy argent upon which a like bendlet azure, and over all a lion rampant or, armed and langued of the third, charged on the shoulder with a hurt upon which a representation of a compass rose of eight points argent, the vertical and horizontal pointers extending beyond the perimeter of the hurt.[1]
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)
Complement290 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

HMCS Mackenzie was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces. She was the lead ship of her class and is the first Canadian naval unit to carry this name. The ship was named for the Mackenzie River, the largest river system in Canada and runs primarily through the Northwest Territories.[2]

Entering service in 1962, Mackenzie served until 1993, mainly as a training ship. She was sold for use as an artificial reef in 1995 and sunk as such the same year off the coast of British Columbia.

  1. ^ a b Arbuckle, p. 62
  2. ^ "Mackenzie Class Name Ship Launched". The Crowsnest. Vol. 13, no. 8. Queen's Printer. June 1961. p. 3.