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HMCS CAYUGA 218 - 11 Jun 1955

Photographer: Walter E. Frost.

Source: City of Vancouver Archives

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Battle honours and awards:  Korea  1950-52

Laid down: 07 Oct 1943

Launched: 28 Jul 1945

Commissioned: 20 Oct 1947

Paid off: 1952

Re-commissioned:  23 Feb 1953

Paid off: 27 Feb 1964

Fate: Broken up in 1965

Cdr Owen Conner Struan (Robbie) Robertson, GM, RCN - 20 Oct 1947 - 01 Jan 1949

Cdr M.A. Medland, RCN - 15 Sep 1949 - 04 Jul 1950

Capt Jeffry (Jeff) Vanstone Brock, DSO, DSC, RCN - 05 Jul 1950 - 24 May 1951

Cdr James Plomer, OBE, DSC, RCN - 25 May 1951 - 18 Jun 1952

Lt Frederick Little, RCN - 18 Jun 1952 - 14 Jul 1952

LCdr William Prine Hayes, RCN - 23 Feb 1953 - 31 Dec 1954

Cdr Geoffry Huntley Davidson, RCN - 01 Jan 1955 - 16 Oct 1956

Cdr Patrick Campbell Benson, RCN - 17 Oct 1956 - 16 Apr 1958

Cdr George Albert Hoyte, RCN - 17 Apr 1958 - 23 Jun 1958

Cdr Michael Henry Elvy Page, RCN - 24 Jun 1958 - 01 Mar 1959

Cdr Evan Petley-Jones, RCN - 02 Mar 1959 - 13 Dec 1960

LCdr Francis John Dunbar, RCN - 14 Dec 1960 - 02 Aug 1961

Cdr A.H. MacDonald, RCN - 03 Aug 1961 - 01 Feb 1962

Cdr William Marshall Beckett, RCN - 02 Feb 1962 - 27 Feb 1964

Band playing at the launching of HMCS CAYUGA R04

Photo Credit: Hayward

Courtesy of Keith McDougall

HMCS CAYUGA - undated

HMCS CAYUGA R04 - 22 June 1948

Photographer: Walter E. Frost. Source: City of Vancouver Archives

HMCS CAYUGA'S Battle Honour board at the Royal Canadian Legion Br # 159, CAYUGA, ON

Courtesy of Neil Bell

HMCS CAYUGA'S Wardroom Onboard / Ashore board at the Royal Canadian Legion Br # 159, CAYUGA, ON

Courtesy of Neil Bell

"BROKEN ARROW"

HMCS CAYUGA searches for a lost USAF bomber and its nuclear payload - Feb 1950

Source: The Muninn Project - Crowsnest Magazine Apr 1950

(JT-01) Alice Becomes New Canadian  (JT-02) HMCS CAYUGA 218 Christmas at Sea - 1951 Menu  (JT-03) Russ Connelly and Jim Tyre and Alice - HMCS CAYUGA 1953, prior to 3rd Deployment to Korea. Alice and Jim did not go on that deployment  (JT-04) Bob Marcus and Jim Tyre with 2 RCR's drinking beer at 25th Infantry Brigade Barracks, Kure, Japan, 1950-51  (JT-05) Jim Tyre, HMCS CAYUGA, April, 1952 - "On my way to Kure Hospital"  (JT-06) Don Deane and Dan McKee lounging on fo'c's'le of HMCS CAYUGA at Sasebo, Japan, 1950-51  (JT-07) Willie Doherty on HMCS CAYUGA 1950-51  (JT-08) Red Robinson on the twin 40 mm, HMCS CAYUGA, Korea, 1950-51

(JT-09) Jim Tyre painting ship on HMCS CAYUGA 1951-52  (JT-10) (L-R) George Johnson, Jim Tyre, Don Deane, RN sailor off HMS Alacrity, Bob Marcus in Hong Kong 1950  (JT-11) Alice and ?, 1951  (JT-12) Alice and ?, 1951-52  (JT-13) Rod Grant and ?, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51  (JT-14) HMAS Tobruk D191, Japan, 1950-51  (JT-15) Jim Tyre and Alice, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951-52  (JT-16) Jim Tyre and "Gummy" Stevens by Twin 40 mm, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951

(JT-17) Ships at anchor, Sasebo, Japan  (JT-18) Scottie from HMNZS Tutira, 1952  (JT-19) Scouse from HMNZS Tutira, Kure, Japan, 1952  (JT-20) Two crew members of HMCS CAYUGA  (JT-21) Jim Tyre, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-22) ROK Gunboat, 1950-51  (JT-23) ROK Gunboat, 1950-51  (JT-24) ROK Gunboat, 1950-51

(JT-25) ROK Gunboat, 1950-51  (JT-26) Helo over "X" turret, HMCS CAYUGA, circa 1950-51  (JT-27) Buster Bowick and Ray Irwin, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951-52  (JT-28) Pancho Fraser and Bob Marcus at Twin 40 mm, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51  (JT-29) George Kirkness, Twin 40 mm Crew, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-30) Alice and ?, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-31) Alice ashore in Kure, Japan, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951-52  (32) Jack Grant at "X" gun, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51

(JT-33) Jim Tyre, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951-52  (JT-34) 40 mm Twin Bofors on HMCS CAYUGA  (JT-35) Jim Tyre and Alice on HMCS CAYUGA, 1951-52  (JT-36) Jim Tyre in mess deck on HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-37) Jim Tyre on HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-38) 40 mm Bofor Crew on HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51  (JT-39) Rod Grant on HMCS CAYUGA by Twin 40 mm, 1950-51  (JT-40) Willie Doherty and Rod Grant by Twin 40 mm, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951

(JT-41) PO Butterworth, HMCS CAYUGA, 1952  (JT-42) Bob Marcus and Don Deane, HMCS CAYUGA, Twin 40 mm Bofors, 1951  (JT-43) Tom Little, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51  (JT-44) South Koreans pounding rice, Chodo Island, Korea, 1950-51  (JT-45) Rod Grant, Twin 40 mm crew, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-46) Willie Doherty, Twin 40 mm crew, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-47) Jim Tyre, Twin 40 mm crew, HMCS CAYUGA, 1952  (JT-48) "Willie" Doherty (left) and Jim Tyre, HMCS CAYUGA, 1952

(JT-49) Des Davidson, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51  (JT-50) Jim Tyre, HMCS CAYUGA, 2nd Korean Deployment, 1951-52  (JT-51) George Kirkness, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-52) Dave Campbell on Korean Gunboat, 1952  (JT-53) Dave Campbell, HMCS CAYUGA, 1951  (JT-54) Ron Stevens, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51  (JT-55) Al Rands, HMCS CAYUGA, June 1952 - "After we arrived home"  (JT-56) John Phillips, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950-51

Courtesy of Jim Tyre, CPO2, RCN, Ret'd

JR04

John Radley on the bridge of HMCS CAYUGA during her Second Korean War Tour

From the collection of John Radley, P1CV2, RCN

Father and son meet mid-Pacific

CPO Max Bernays, Chief Bos'n on HMCS CAYUGA meets his son, OS Max Bernays, HMCS Sioux onboard HMCS CAYUGA midway between Pearl Harbour and Kwajalein Atoll. 01 Dec 1954

Courtesy of Steve Hlasny

HMCS CAYUGA 218 underway off Korea - Wednesday, 03 Mar 1954

USN photo - public domain

Second Canadian Escort Squadron - Spring Cruise 1958

HMCS Crescent, HMCS CAYUGA, HMCS SKEENA, HMCS FRASER, HMCS MARGAREE

Courtesy of Dave Tyre

CANADIAN WARSHIPS IN ORIENT -- HMCS Cayuga (background) begins the departure of the Second Canadian Escort Squadron from Yokosuka, Japan, after a visit made during the current training cruise from Esquimalt, B.C., to the Orient. Other ports of call for the five destroyers escorts include Pearl Harbour, Tokyo, Saigon and Okinawa. In the foreground, preparing to slip, are the new DEs Skeena, Fraser and Margaree. The modernized destroyer escort Crescent is at far right rear.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 1958 Lunenburg Progress Enterprise, Wed., 02 Apr 1958, page 5

Courtesy of Hugh Muir

OSEMS Keith McDougall resting in the mick rack. After lower mess HMCS CAYUGA 1959

Courtesy of Keith McDougall

OSEMS Hainsworth getting a haircut from PO2 Caissie, 1959

Courtesy of Keith McDougall

Unknown sailor, after lower mess deck, HMCS CAYUGA, 1959

Courtesy of Keith McDougall

HMCS CAYUGA fueling from HMCS OONTARIO - 1957

Courtesy of Stephen Hlasny

This is the crew of the director which ranged and pointed HMCS CAYUGA'S guns during the destroyer's bombardment of communist shore batteries at Inchon in February. Left to right are PO James Brahan, Vancouver; CPO John R. Ross, Vancouver; PO Stuart Butterworth, Edmonton; Lieut. Michael Martin, Kingston, Ont., and PO Ken Rae, Calgary.

Source: CROWSNEST Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 5, April, 1951

Royal Canadian Navy Tribal class destroyer HMCS CAYUGA (218) receives a jackstay transfer of supplies from HMAS Sydney III (R17) during a Replenishment at Sea

Source: Australian War memorial

   (left) HMCS CAYUGA, one of HMAS SYDNEY'S escorting destroyers in the distance. In the foreground is a Firefly on SYDNEY'S flight deck  (right) Flight deck of HMCS SYDNEY

Source/credit: Imperial War Museum

Alice, mascot of HMCS CAYUGA

Source: CROWSNEST Magazine Vol. 2, No. 12, Oct 1950

Alice, Mascot of HMCS CAYUGA

My first dog - Alice. She was apparently a cute little puppy when the crew adopted her. By the time I first met her she was a fully-developed cleaning stations PO.  She was picked up as a stray by HMCS CAYUGA in Guam she started out as an OD (ordinary dog). Serving in the Korean War, she was promoted to AB, LS and eventually P2 (temporary-acting, while so employed). Her action station was below the X mount shelter. When she came ashore she moved in with our family. What most people don't know is that Alice needed a job. She spent her post-RCN days as the dog on the garbage truck in PMQs. She was NEVER late for supper. Courtesy of  Dave Tyre

On the 2nd deployment to Korea, Alice also used the Gun Direction Room (GDR) as an "Action Station." Courtesy of Jim Tyre

HMCS CAYUGA leaving for Korea from Esquimalt, British Columbia, Jun 1951

Source: Canadian Naval Alumni page on Facebook
Credit: Peter Chance

Christmas on HMCS CAYUGA 1951

Sailors mentioned in the article - PO Stanley James of Victoria, BC; G. Sinclair of Edmonton, AB; H. Abs of Regina, SK; and, M. Pelletier of Winnipeg, MB

From the collection of Harold Abs. AB.RP, RCN

Courtesy of Donna Abs 

This is a photo and caption from a 1952 edition of The Crowsnest. At the time, it looked like a great story. HMCS CAYUGA'S medical officer performed emergency surgery on the ROK soldier and saved him. Only one little problem: CAYUGA'S surgeon-Lt. Sears was, in fact, Ferdinand Waldo Demara - The Great Imposter.

Courtesy of Dave Tyre

The Great Imposter - Demara, known locally as "Fred", was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1921, at 40 Texas Avenue in the lower southwest Tower Hill Neighborhood. He ran away from home at the age of sixteen to join Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, where he stayed for several years. He joined the U.S. Army in 1941. The following year Demara began his new lives by borrowing the name of Anthony Ignolia, an army buddy, and went AWOL. After two more tries in monasteries he joined the Navy. He did not reach the position he wanted, faked his suicide and borrowed another name, Robert Linton French, and became a religiously-oriented psychologist. He taught psychology in a Pennsylvania college, served as an orderly in a Los Angeles sanitarium, as an instructor in St. Martin's College in the state of Washington. The FBI caught him eventually and he served 18 months in prison for desertion. After his release he assumed a fake identity and studied law at night at Northeastern University, then joined the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Maine, a Roman Catholic order. While at the Brothers of Christian Instruction, he became acquainted with a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr. That led to his most famous exploit, in which he masqueraded as Dr. Cyr, working as a trauma surgeon aboard HMCS CAYUGA, a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer, during the Korean War. He managed to improvise successful major surgeries and fend off infection with generous amounts of penicillin. His most notable surgical practices were performed on some sixteen Korean combat casualties who were loaded onto the CAYUGA. All eyes turned to Demara, the only "surgeon" on board, as it became obvious that several of the casualties would require major surgery or certainly die. After ordering personnel to transport these variously injured patients into the ship's operating room and prep them for surgery, Demara disappeared to his room with a textbook on general surgery and proceeded to speed-read the various surgeries he was now forced to perform, including major chest surgery. None of the casualties died as a result of Demara's surgeries. Apparently, the removal of a bullet from a wounded man ended up in Canadian newspapers. One person reading the reports was the mother of the real Dr. Joseph Cyr; her son at the time of "his" service in Korea was actually practicing medicine in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. When news of the impostor reached the CAYUGA, still on duty off Korea, Captain James Plomer at first refused to believe Demara was not a doctor (and not Joseph Cyr). The Canadian Navy chose not to press charges, and Demara returned to the United States. (Source: Wikipedia)

Getting ready for Christmas aboard HMCS CAYUGA during the Korean war

Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

Whaler from HMCS Sioux 225 being exchanged with the whaler from HMCS CAYUGA 218 - 1954

From the collection of Joe Tanner

Courtesy of Steve Hlasny

NATO Exercise A Success Despite Severe Storms - 29 Oct 1969

Newspaper article on 1963 NATO Exercise

Courtesy of Art Moore

(GS-01) "Boy from Calgary, McKay", demonstrating some fancy lariat tricks - HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-02) Moose Dempster checking the gun, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-03) Moose Dempster sleeping again, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-04) 4-inch gun crew closed up with ship's mascot Alice, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-05) ABNQ Moorse from Newfy", HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-06) Liberty men going ashore, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-07) Landing barge in Sasebo Harbour, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-08) After 40mm Bofer AA gun, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951

(GS-09) ABNQ Sterling with ship's mascot Alice, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-10) Japanese worker on the end of a crane in Kuri, Japan, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-11) (L-R) Don, Pat, Scott and Butterworth, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-12) ABLR F. Hughes building a model ship, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-13) Playing cards in the mess deck, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-14) Rough seas in the Yellow sea, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-15) ABAA Mckay and ABNQ Scott in the mess deck, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-16) Life in the mess deck, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951

(GS-17) 4-inch gun loader, ABNQ Spicer, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-18) Liberty boat, Sasebo, Japan, 1950  (GS-19) British Hospital Ship - Photo taken from HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-20) ABAA Paul on watch, after Bofors, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-21) "It's cold!" - HMCS CAYUGA on patrol on the west coast of Korea. LSQR Rideout having a kye  (GS-22) ABAA McKay dumping the evening dishwater, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-23) (L-R) ABNQ William Doyle, ABNQ John Craig and ABNQ Watson, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (GS-24) Playing cards on watch, "X" gun deck

(GS-25) US Admiral's barge with HMS Witherington D76 in the background, Sasebo, Japan  (GS-26) ABNQ George Spicer with ship's mascot Alice, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950  (GS-27) "It's damn cold!" - ABNQ George Spicer, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950  (28) Don and his buddy, Sasebo, Japan, HMCS CAYUGA, 1950  (29) ABNQ Holman, Korea, HMCS CAYUGA circa 1950-1951  (30) HMCS CAYUGA refueling from a British tanker in the Yellow Sea circa 1950-1951  (31) Red (North Korean) gun knocked out, circa 1950-1951  (32) CAYUGA crew members check out a knocked out Russian tank, circa 1950-1951

(GS-33) Remains of destroyed factory at Inchon, Korea circa 1950-1951  (GS-34) Yank jeep at Inchon, Korea circa 1950-1951  (GS-35) 

Courtesy of George Spicer

HMCS CAYUGA 218 RASing with unknown ship 

From the collection of Norman Taggart

Courtesy of Erin Brownlee

The following photos are from the collection of Norman Taggart, Electrician, RCN during the 1950-1951 Korean War tour on HMCS CAYUGA. A few of the photos were identified by Norman, but most have no writing to say when, or where they were taken; however, he did number them so they will be shown here in sequence from the start of the deployment to the last port of call in Hawaii before heading home.

HMCS CAYUGA 1950-1951 Korean Tour

(NT-01) HMCS Athabaskan enroute from Esquimalt to Pearl Harbor  (NT-02) HMCS Sioux enroute from Esquimalt to Pearl Harbor  (NT-03) HMCS CAYUGA fueling form HMCS Ontario at the halfway point enroute to Pearl Harbor  (NT-04) Pearl Harbour, Jul 1950  (NT-05) First view of Kwajalein Atoll, Jul 1950  (NT-06) One of the islands of the Kwajalein Atoll  (NT-07) Chief's mess at Kwajalein  (NT-08) Floating drydock at Guam

(NT-09) Harbour entrance, Guam  (NT-10) Jetty at Guam  (NT-11) Hoover Beach, Guam  (NT-12) Beer party at Hoover Beach, Guam  (NT-13) Native climbing Coconut palm tree  (NT-14) Leaving Guam - HMCS CAYUGA in the foreground  (NT-15) American carrier seen through a scuttle on CAYUGA, Sasebo, Japan

(NT-17) HMS Charity D29 approaching HMCS CAYUGA  (NT-21) USS Missouri and USS St. Paul, Sasebo, Japan, 1950

(NT-28) One of HMCS CAYUGA'S AA guns with ready use ammo  (NT-30)Sasebo Japan, 1950

(NT-34) Gun crew on HMCS CAYUGA readying to fire the guns  (NT-35) HMCS CAYUGA - after the guns were fired. Note the empty shell casings on the deck  (NT-36) Sasebo, Japan  (NT-37) HMCS CAYUGA storing ship  (NT-38) Liberty boat going ashore, Sasebo, Japan, 1950  (NT-39) Liberty boat going ashore, Sasebo, Japan, 1950

(NT-60 - NT-63) taken at an oyster farm

(67) HMCS CAYUGA conducting a RAS with an unknown tanker.  Appears to be an aircraft carrier on the other side of the tanker  (68) ROK gunboat coming alongside HMCS CAYUGA.  ROK vessel Danyang JMS 306 was an ex-Japanese mine-planting vessel  (69) Unknown ship approaching HMCS CAYUGA - possibly ROK

(NT-76) A North Korean mine being landed from HMCS CAYUGA for testing  (NT-78) HMCS CAYUGA in dry dock at the SSK Shipyard, Sasebo, Japan  (NT-79) HMCS CAYUGA in dry dock at the SSK Shipyard, Sasebo, Japan

Webmaster's note: During her 1st Korean tour, HMCS CAYUGA entered dry dock twice - once to check the sonar dome and have the ship painted and the 2nd time to have the screws checked as she backed over the ship's whaler.  These two dry dock photos appear to be the 1st dry docking as the 2nd time they only lowered the water enough to check the screws to make sure there was no damage to them. 

(NT-81) Hiroshima, Japan

(NT-106) One of HMCS CAYUGA'S AA gun  (NT-107) HMCS Nootka 213 following astern of HMCS CAYUGA - 1951

(NT-113) The A-bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan. This building was the closest building to the A-bomb blast that was not totally destroyed. It was left was it was and is a now peace memorial to this day (2015) in Hiroshima. (NT-114) HMCS CAYUGA alongside (possibly Sasebo).

(NT-123-124) Officers and men on fo'c's'le of HMCS CAYUGA - appears to be some type of presentation happening  (NT-126) HMCS CAYUGA, left foreground, HMCS Nootka 213, ship on port side of Nootka unknown  (NT-127) Weapons crew on HMCS CAYUGA prepares to fire a depth charge  (NT-128) Depth charge away

(NT-129) Depth charge exploding astern of HMCS CAYUGA  (NT-130) Physical training (PT) on HMCS CAYUGA at sea  (NT-131) Arrival at Pearl Harbor - last port visit before returning to Esquimalt - 1951

Hula troop welcomes HMCS CAYUGA to Hawaii - 1951

From the Norman Taggart Collection

George Watt ( Calgary Boy) & Gerald Uniac (London Ontario lad) on HMCS CAYUGA, Korea, 1951

Courtesy of Christopher Watt

George Watt & Don Cathgard (Kitty), ashore in Victoria, 1951 (while drafted to HMCS CAYUGA)

Courtesy of Christopher Watt

OSWS William Bradley, 56964-H, (right) and shipmate OSWS MacDougal (or McCloud) - just called him Mac.

This was taken in London during CAYUGA’s last trip across the pond in Sept 1963. England, Ireland, Scotland and Norway

Courtesy of Bill Bradley

OSWS William Bradley, 56964-H, (right) and shipmate OSWS MacDougal (or McCloud) - just called him Mac.

This was taken in Trafalgar Square during CAYUGA’s last trip across the pond in Sept 1963. England, Ireland, Scotland and Norway.

Courtesy of OS Bill Bradley

HMCS CAYUGA 218 - date unknown

Courtesy of Dennis McGillivray

DND/RCN photo

HMCS CAYUGA 218

DND / RCN Photo - Crown copyright