page_title: HMCS Mackenzie
section_title: Construction and career
hierarchical_section_title: HMCS Mackenzie / Construction and career
caption_attribution_description: The Royal Canadian Navy Mackenzie-class destroyer escort, HMCS Mackenzie (DDE 261), as it sails past the San Diego Convention Center at San Diego, California (USA). The ship was participating in the exercise "RIMPAC '92".
context_page_description: HMCS Mackenzie was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. She was the lead ship of her class and is the first Canadian naval unit to carry this name. The ship was named for the Mackenzie River, the largest river system in Canada and runs primarily through the Northwest Territories.
  Entering service in 1962, Mackenzie served until 1993, mainly as a training ship. She was sold for use as an artificial reef in 1995 and sunk as such the same year off the coast of British Columbia.
context_section_description: Mackenzie was ordered in 1957 and was laid down on 15 December 1958 at Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal. The ship was launched on 25 May 1961 and was commissioned into the RCN on 6 October 1962 with the classification number DDE 261.
  Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet based at Halifax, Mackenzie transferred to the Pacific on 2 March 1963. She was assigned to the Pacific Fleet as a member of the Fourth Canadian Destroyer Squadron and served largely as a training ship with the RCN and later in the Canadian Forces under Maritime Forces Pacific as part of Training Group Pacific. She was also used for surveillance of the west coast, like in March 1973, when she intercepted drug smugglers off Quatsino Sound. In July 1982, Mackenzie shadowed the Soviet spy ship Aavril Sarychev in Canadian waters which had monitoring the North American west coast for new American submarines. She underwent the DELEX refit between 25 May 1986 and 16 January 1987.
  Mackenzie was paid off from Maritime Command on 3 August 1993.
caption: Mackenzie at San Diego in 1992 while participating in RIMPAC '92
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