HMCS Cayuga
 HMCS Cayuga in 1954
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  Canada | |
| Name | Cayuga |
| Namesake | Cayuga nation |
| Operator | Royal Canadian Navy |
| Ordered | April 1942 |
| Builder | Halifax Shipyards, Halifax |
| Laid down | 7 October 1943 |
| Launched | 28 July 1945 |
| Commissioned | 20 October 1947 |
| Decommissioned | 27 February 1964 |
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| Honours and awards | Korea 1950-52[1] |
| Fate | Scrapped, Faslane |
| Notes | Colours: Gold and scarlet |
| Badge | Blazon Or, an Indian of the Cayuga tribe, facing dexter, in kneeling posture, right knee on the ground, left leg bent and forward, two feathers in hair, lower part of body clad, upper bare, a quiver of arrows pendant from the left shoulder, the base resting on ground beside the right knee, the Indian holding a bow and arrow in the "ready "position all gules.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Template:Sclass2- destroyer |
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| Length | 377 ft (114.9 m) |
| Beam | 37.5 ft (11.4 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 44,000 shp |
| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h) |
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| Complement | 190 (219 as leader) |
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HMCS Cayuga was a Template:Sclass2- destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1946 until 1964. She saw action in the Korean War. She was named for the Cayuga nation, a First Nations people of Canada.
Cayuga was ordered in April 1942 as part of the 1942 building programme.[2] She was laid down on 7 October 1943 by Halifax Shipyards at Halifax, Nova Scotia and launched 28 July 1945.[2] She was commissioned 20 October 1947.[2]
History
Wearing pennant R04, then 218, Cayuga served a total of three tours of Korea, the last in 1954 after the conflict had ended. Cayuga was part of this initial first dispatch of three ships by Canada to Korea. She was paid off in February 1964.
It was on this vessel that Ferdinand Demara, "the great impostor", served while impersonating a Canadian medical officer.
RCSCC Cayuga
In 1942 the 140th Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps was created and named after HMCS Cayuga, and continues to operate to this day, on CFB Wainwright, Alberta. The Coxswain of 140 RCSCC Cayuga, as is the Corps' formal title, is Cadet Chief Petty Officer First Class (CPO1) D. Cummins. The Commanding Officer is Lt(N) E. Belanger, and the Executive Officer is NCdt. L. Jeckells.
Notes
References
- Arbuckle, J. Graeme (1987). Badges of the Canadian Navy. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 0-920852-49-1.
- Brice, Martin H. (1971). The Tribals. London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0245-2.
- Robert Crichton, The Great Imposter, Random House, New York, 1959
- English, John (2001). Afridi to Nizam: British Fleet Destroyers 1937–43. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-95-0.
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