HMCS Cayuga (R04)

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HMCS Cayuga, Canada, Department of National Defence
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Commissioned:	October 1947
Fate:	February 1964
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Motto:	Onenh owa den dya (Now let us proceed)
Battle Honours:	Korea 1950-53
Colours	Gold and scarlet
Badge:	Blazon Or, an Indian of the Cayuga tribe, facing dexter, in kneeling posture, right knee on the ground, left leg bent and forward, two feathers in hair, lower part of body clad, upper bare, a quiver of arrows pendant from the left shoulder, the base resting on ground beside the right knee, the Indian holding a bow and arrow in the "ready "position all gules.

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.

Wearing pennant R04, then 218, she served a total of three tours of Korea, the last in 1954 after the conflict had ended. She was paid off in February 1964.