HMCS Cayuga (R04)

HMCS "Cayuga" R04/218 was a Destroyer of the Tribal class built in the Halifax Shipyards, Halifax, Nova Scotia 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.

References

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

ee also

List of ships of the Canadian Navy