HMCS Yukon Statistics

Type	Canadian Mackenzie class destroyer
Builder	Burrard Dry Dock & Shipbuilding
Laid Down	25 Oct 1959
Launched	27 July 1961
Commisioned	25 May 1963
Length	366 feet
Height	70 feet + signal mast
Beam	42 feet
Decks	8
Displacement	2380 tons
Main Machinery	2 English Electric geared turbines; 30000 shp; 2 shafts. 2 Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers
Speed, knots	28
Range, miles	4750 at 14 knots
Complement	210 (11 officers)
Guns	2 Vickers 3 in (76 mm)/70 Mk 6 mounting (twin)(1) 90 degree elevation; 90 rounds/minute to 17 km (9 nm) weight of shell 7 kg. 2 FMC 3 in (76 mm)/50 Mk 33 mounting (twin) (second mounting fwd in Qu'Appelle) (2); 85 degree elevation; 50 rounds/minute to 12.8 kn (7 nm); weight of shell 6 kg.
Torpedoes	6-324 mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes (3) Honeywell Mk 46; anti-submarine; active/passive homing to 11 km (6 nm) at 40 knots; warhead 44 kg.
Countermeasures	ESM: WLR 1; radar warning.
Fire control	GFCS Mk 69. GFCS Mk 63. Litton ADLIPS; automated tactical data handling; Links 11 and 14.
Radars	Air search: Raytheon SPS 10 (4); D band;range 119 km (65 nm) Surface search: Raytheon SPS 10 (5); G band. Fire control: SPG 48 (6); I/J band. SPG 34; I/J band
Sonars	Westighouse SQS 505; combined VDS and hull-mounted; active search and attack; medium frequency. SQS 501; hull-mounted; bottom target classification; high frequency
Programmes	Officially calssified as DD
Modernisation	All modernised at Esquimalt by Burrard/Yarrow Inc under Delex (Destroyer Life Extension Programme) 1982-85 including improved sonar and communications to SPS 12 radar. Extension until 1990-93.

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