Royal Canadian Navy - Destroyer

R 04 / DDE 218  -  HMCS Cayuga

 

 

DDE-218 R-04 HMCS Cayuga crest badge patch insignia

DDE-218 R-04 HMCS Cayuga UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

Type, Class:

 

Destroyer - DD / UK Tribal - class

later converted to a Destroyer Escort - DDE

Builder:

 

Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

STATUS:

 

Ordered: April 1942

Laid down: October 7, 1943

Launched: July 28, 1945

Commissioned: October 20, 1947 (as R 04)

refitted and converted to a Destroyer Escort

recommissioned as DDE 218

Decommissioned: February 27, 1964

Fate: sold for scrap; scrapped in Faslane, Scotland in 1965

Homeport:

 

-

Namesake:

 

The Cayuga people ("People of the Great Swamp") was one of the five original constituents

of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of American Indians in New York.

Ship’s Motto:

 

ONENH OWA DEN DYA (now let us proceed)

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > UK Tribal - class Destroyer

 

ship images

 

DDE-218 HMCS Cayuga UK Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

 

DDE-218 R-04 HMCS Cayuga Tribal class destroyer Halifax shipyards

 

R-04 DDE-218 HMCS Cayuga Tribal class destroyer Royal Canadian Navy

 

HMCS Cayuga R-04 DDE-218 Tribal class destroyer Canadian Navy

 

DDE-218 R-04 HMCS Cayuga UK Tribal class destroyer royal canadian navy halifax shipyards

 

DDE-218 HMCS Cayuga Tribal class destroyer

 

 

HMCS Cayuga (R 04 / DDE 218):

 

- history wanted -

 

patches

HMCS Cayuga R-04 DDE-214 insignia crest badge patch

 

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