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OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/1/2015 6:02:27 PM

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Proud ship retires.....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/hmcs-iroquois-decommissioned-today-after-43-years-1.3055786

Great walk around photo's

http://www.resinshipyard.com/walkarounds/tribal/tribal_walkaround.html

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/1/2015 7:06:15 PM

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The Wyandot Indians (aka Huron) were a tribe (they still exist of course)that were a part of the Iroquois Confederacy and primarily lived in Canada. They sometimes wore "Mohawk" (another Iroquois member tribe) style hairdos when at war.

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/2/2015 1:18:56 PM

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This makes me feel OLD. First time I crossed an ocean was in a task group with the rather new HMCS Huron, another TRIBAL. In 1977 for the Naval Review for Elizabeth's 25th anniversary as Queen. When HURON was the star of 'Sinking a destroyer (one of the 'learning' type channels) some years back I was going - I remember when it was NEW! (Then I did the math).

I only did 25 years in the US Navy with some broken service and coming up on 12 years retired.

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/2/2015 2:00:47 PM

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Actually the Iroquois kinda extinguished the Huron in a long war.
The tribe was dispersed, some to Quebec and some finally to Oklahoma.

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/2/2015 3:49:50 PM

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This makes me feel OLD. First time I crossed an ocean was in a task group with the rather new HMCS Huron, another TRIBAL. In 1977 for the Naval Review for Elizabeth's 25th anniversary as Queen. When HURON was the star of 'Sinking a destroyer (one of the 'learning' type channels) some years back I was going - I remember when it was NEW! (Then I did the math).

I only did 25 years in the US Navy with some broken service and coming up on 12 years retired.

Must make me feel old as well. I was at the Spithead review that year and although I don't remember her I must have seen her. By coincidence I was on another tribal, HMS Nubian, all-be-it a frigate. As a souvenir I have a beer tankard of the review engraved with the Queen's head and the ships that took part. The most important word in my reply is of course 'beer'

. So here's to her, the ship that is. Ok the queen as well.

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/3/2015 11:06:20 AM

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This makes me feel OLD. First time I crossed an ocean was in a task group with the rather new HMCS Huron, another TRIBAL. In 1977 for the Naval Review for Elizabeth's 25th anniversary as Queen. When HURON was the star of 'Sinking a destroyer (one of the 'learning' type channels) some years back I was going - I remember when it was NEW! (Then I did the math).

I only did 25 years in the US Navy with some broken service and coming up on 12 years retired.

Must make me feel old as well. I was at the Spithead review that year and although I don't remember her I must have seen her. By coincidence I was on another tribal, HMS Nubian, all-be-it a frigate. As a souvenir I have a beer tankard of the review engraved with the Queen's head and the ships that took part. The most important word in my reply is of course 'beer'. So here's to her, the ship that is. Ok the queen as well.

Considering there were over 200 ships at the review, forgetting a little frigate probably isn't hard. We came over across the Atlantic with her - I don't remember her from the review but from the transit. I remember a Fleet Air Arm Bucaneer HITTING a cheap (Man sized, Chunks of wood put together type thing) target with a 10 pound smoke bomb in the afternoon - in the morning the Fleet Air Arm didn't come close. On the way home there was a SINK-X featuring a ship that may have been in the game, a WWII DE we gave to the French and didn't want back. (June/July 1977, off the coast of France, if any of the data gathering types want to look it up.)

And the Canadian Tribals were home built, with the new fangled gas turbines, different from the RN Tribals.

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/4/2015 6:25:00 PM

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"forgetting a little frigate "

Eh hem.......she's a destroyer, ;-) lol

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/5/2015 7:35:52 AM

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"forgetting a little frigate "

Eh hem.......she's a destroyer, ;-) lol

The RN had no Tribal class destroyers in 1977, they were frigates. I was on the Nubian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal-class_frigate

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/5/2015 10:40:03 AM

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I was at Spithead in 1977 on HMAS Brisbane - I don't recall her although I do remember Canadian ships present. Over 200 ships I doubt we'll ever see anything like it again

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RE: OT HMCS Iroquois decommissioned today after 43 years - 5/5/2015 1:05:37 PM

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The Tribals (Iroquois) went massive refits after they were launched. They started life as under armed helicopter platforms (two Sea Kings (BIG helicopters) on a 5,000 ton hull) with a 5" gun (standard at the time), two triple ASW torpedo tubes, a Limbo ASW mortar and Sea Chicken (US Sea Sparrow). Frigate type armament. After TRUMP, she received STANDARD AAMs and moved to a DDG. Looking at some stuff on the internet the original designation may have been DDH. Post TRUMP vessels look a LOT different than the originals.

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