HMCS Athabaskan (G07)
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HMCS Athabaskan, Canada, Department of National Defence |
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 5 Apr, 1940 | |
| Laid down: | 31 Oct, 1940 | |
| Launched: | 18 Nov, 1941 | |
| Commissioned: | 3 Feb, 1943 | |
| Fate: | Lost in action 29 April 1944 English Channel (Torpedoed) |
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| General Characteristics | ||
| Displacement: | 1,850 tons (standard), 2,520 tons (full) |
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| Length: | 377 ft (115 m) | |
| Beam: | 37 ft 6 in (11.4 m) | |
| Draught: | 9 ft | |
| Propulsion: | 3 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 44,000 shp | |
| Speed: | 36 kt | |
| Range: | 524 tons oil, 5,700 nm at 15 kt | |
| Complement: | 190 (219 as leader) | |
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| Aircraft: | N/A | |
| Motto: | We fight as one | |
| Battle Honours: | Arctic 1943-44, English Channel 1944 | |
HMCS Athabaskan (G 07) was the first of three destroyers of the Canadian Navy to bear this name. It was a Destroyer of the Tribal class built in the United Kingdom by Vickers Armstrong of Newcastle upon Tyne with Parsons engine works.
Athabaskan was lost in the English Channel the night of 29 April 1944. She was topredoed by the German destroyer escort T24. Her commanding officer LCdr John Stubbs was killed in action after declining rescue by HMCS Haida to swim back for more crew members.
- Badge: Blazon On a field argent, a North American Indian clad in buckskin breeches, leggings and beaded moccasins, but bare to the waist except for a necklace of bear's claws and blue shells, and ear ornaments of the last. The Indian wears the full-feathered headdress and is mounted bareback upon an Indian pony being halted from the trot. The Indian holds a red bow and arrow in the "ready" position, the latter pointing down.
See also: List of ships of the Canadian Navy
| Tribal class destroyer (1936) |
| Royal Navy |
| Afridi | Ashanti | Bedouin | Cossack | Eskimo | Gurkha | Maori | Mashona | Matabele | Mohawk | Nubian | Punjabi | Sikh | Somali | Tartar | Zulu |
| Royal Canadian Navy |
| Athabaskan (i) | Athabaskan (ii) | Cayuga | Haida | Huron | Iroquois | Micmac | Nootka |
| Royal Australian Navy |
| Arunta | Bataan | Warramunga |
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