Template:Ship box HMCS Iroquois (DDH 280)

Iroquois heads into the Atlantic passing Gibraltar

[edit] HMCS Iroquois (DDH 280)

• Builders: Canada (Built at Marine Industries Limited, Sorel-Tracy Quebec)
• Laid down: 15 January 1969
• Launched: 28 November 1970
• Operator:  Canadian Forces Maritime Command
• Commissioned: 29 July 1972
• Status: In active service
• Modifications: 3 July 1992 TRUMP - addition of Mk.41 VLS SM-2 Block III, Phalanx CIWS and Otobreda 76 mm gun; removal of Sea Sparrow SAM
• Operations: 6 month deployment to the Arabian Sea as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom.