Booklet
Archival Item
2009.4.1
White paper booklet bound with two staples entitled "Welcome Aboard/ HMCS Yukon DDE 263"; front cover has image of ship's crest. Booklet provides background information about ship; ship's capabilities; specifications, motto and explanation of crest. A photograph of the ship acts as the booklet's centrefold.
HMCS Yukon (DDH 263) was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. She was the first Canadian naval unit to carry this name.
Yukon was laid down on 25 October 1959 at Burrard Dry Dock Ltd., North Vancouver and launched on 27 July 1961. She was commissioned into the RCN on 25 May 1963.
She was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and served largely as a training ship with the RCN and later in the CF under Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC). She underwent the Destroyer Life Extension Project (DELEX) in 1983.
She was decommissioned from Maritime Command on 31 July 1992.
Yukon's hulk was purchased by the San Diego Oceans Foundation which towed her from CFB Esquimalt to San Diego, California in 2000. She was gutted and cleaned before being scuttled in Mission Bay off San Diego as an artificial reef.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Yukon_(DDE_263)
Yukon was laid down on 25 October 1959 at Burrard Dry Dock Ltd., North Vancouver and launched on 27 July 1961. She was commissioned into the RCN on 25 May 1963.
She was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and served largely as a training ship with the RCN and later in the CF under Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC). She underwent the Destroyer Life Extension Project (DELEX) in 1983.
She was decommissioned from Maritime Command on 31 July 1992.
Yukon's hulk was purchased by the San Diego Oceans Foundation which towed her from CFB Esquimalt to San Diego, California in 2000. She was gutted and cleaned before being scuttled in Mission Bay off San Diego as an artificial reef.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Yukon_(DDE_263)