HMCS Cayuga (R04)

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HMCS Cayuga,
Canada, Department of National Defence
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Motto: We fight as one
Battle Honours: Korea 1950-53

HMCS Cayuga R04/218 was a Destroyer of the Tribal class built in the United Kingdom and served in the Royal Canadian Navy. She served in the Korean War. This is the vessel that Ferdinand Demara, "the great impostor" served on while impersonating a Canadian medical officer.

[edit] References

  • The Great Imposter by Robert Crichton, New York: Random House, 1959

[edit] See also

List of ships of the Canadian Navy


Tribal class destroyer (1936)
Royal Navy
Afridi | Ashanti | Bedouin | Cossack | Eskimo | Gurkha | Maori | Mashona | Matabele | Mohawk | Nubian | Punjabi | Sikh | Somali | Tartar | Zulu
Royal Canadian Navy
Athabaskan (i) | Athabaskan (ii) | Cayuga | Haida | Huron | Iroquois | Micmac | Nootka
Royal Australian Navy
Arunta | Bataan | Warramunga


List of destroyers of the Royal Navy
List of major warship classes of the Royal Australian Navy


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