Operation Sharp Guard in support of the United Nations naval embargo of the former Yugoslavia. It then departed for the refit that began in July of that year. After completing her TRUMP refit, Huron returned to the west coast in 1995, taking part in most of the major naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean. On 7 September 1999, with Royal Canadian Mounted Police and personnel from Immigration Canada aboard, the warship intercepted a vessel carrying 146 Chinese migrants. The migrant ship was found to be unfit and Huron transported the passengers to Esquimalt. Huron appeared in the episode "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" of the television series Seven Days, representing a new type of US warship under the command of a female captain. Paying off and sinking Despite Huron being the most recently refitted Iroquois-class destroyer, it was placed in mothballed status in 2000, due to a personnel shortage following defence cutbacks during the late 1990s. In 2005 it was paid off from the Canadian Forces and awaited disposal at Esquimalt. In 2006 MARPAC decided to use Huron in what would become the first sink-exercise that Maritime Command (MARCOM) conducted. The exercise was named Operation Trident Fury and was planned to use a variety of MARPAC ships, and US Navy and AIRCOM aircraft, to bombard Huron with artillery, missiles and strafing fire, and finally to sink it with a torpedo launched from a submarine. Huron was stripped of armaments and all environmentally harmful contaminant equipment and fuel in the winter of 2006–2007. On 14 May 2007 it was towed to the MARPAC offshore weapons range west of Vancouver Island. Despite being damaged by with a Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile, 57 mm gunfire and CIWS rounds, it was 76 mm naval gunfire from its twin Algonquin that was responsible for sinking the hulk of Huron. The main gun used by Algonquin had originally been installed on Huron, meaning that Huron was eventually sunk by one of its own weapons. This was the first operational sinking of a Canadian warship in home waters. The sinking was the subject of a 2007 History Television documentary, "Sinking a Destroyer". Ship's bell The Christening Bells Project at CFB Esquimalt's Naval and Military Museum includes information from the ship's bell of HMCS Huron, which was used for baptism of babies on board ship from 1973 to 1997. The bell is currently held by the