HMCS Annapolis (DDH 265)

HMCS "Annapolis" (DDH 265) was an sclass|Annapolis|destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. She was the second Canadian naval unit to carry this name.

"Annapolis" was laid down on 2 September 1961 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and launched on 27 April 1963. She was commissioned into the RCN on 19 December 1964 with pennant number 265.

"Annapolis" served most of her career with the RCN and later Canadian Forces' Pacific Fleet. During her service with Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC), she was primarily used as a training ship.

She was decommissioned from the Canadian Forces on 15 November 1996 and placed in reserve. She was paid off in 1998 and stripped of all weapons and sensors before being laid up at CFB Esquimalt.

She was sold to the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia in 2008. Currently she is being prepared to be sunk as an artificial reef in Port Graves (Long Bay) on Gambier Island in Howe Sound.