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Iroquois pays off

Iroquois pays off

The Naval Ensign has been lowered for the last time in HMCS Iroquois. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) honoured the Tribal class destroyer for its 43 years of service with a paying off ceremony at HMC Dockyard Atlantic, May 1. Commissioned on July 29, 1972, the anti-submarine warfare destroyer served as the command ship of […]

Ships pay off

Ships pay off

On Sept.19, 2014, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), announced the retirement of four ships that had reached the end of their operational lives: Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships Protecteur, Preserver, Iroquois and Algonquin. Each ship has a slightly different story, but the common thread is that all four ships have served […]