HMCS Yukon (DDE 263)

	Crew portrait in July 1964
History
Canada
Name	Yukon
Namesake	Yukon River
Ordered	1957
Builder	Burrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver
Laid down	25 October 1959
Launched	27 July 1961
Commissioned	25 May 1963
Decommissioned	3 December 1993
Refit	1984–85 (DELEX)
Identification	DDE 263
Motto	"Only the fit survive"
Fate	Sold to the San Diego Oceans Foundation. Sank at Sunken Harbor off San Diego in July 2000.
Notes	Gules, a bend wavy or charged with a like bendlet azure, and over all a Malamute sled dog, proper
General characteristics
Class & type	Mackenzie-class destroyer
Displacement	2,880 t (2,830 long tons) full load
Length	366 ft (111.6 m)
Beam	42 ft (12.8 m)
Draught	13 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;
Speed	28 kn (51.9 km/h; 32.2 mph)
Complement	228 regular, 170–210 training
Sensors &; 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 Yukon was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces. She was the first Canadian naval unit to carry the name. She was named for the Yukon River that runs from British Columbia through Yukon and into Alaska in the United States.

Entering service in 1963, she was primarily used as a training ship on the west coast. She was decommissioned in 1993 and sold for use as an artificial reef and sunk as such at Sunken Harbor off San Diego, California in 2000.