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Canada – Royal
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Destroyer
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G 07 -
HMCS Athabaskan
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HMCS Athabaskan (G 07)
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DND photo
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Type,
Class:
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UK Tribal Class Destroyer /
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Builder:
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Vickers Armstrong Ltd.; Newcastle-on-Tyne; Scotland, U.K.
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STATUS:
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Laid down: October 31, 1940 (as Iroquois) Launched: November 18, 1941 Commissioned:
February 15, 1943 Fate: lost in action on April 29, 1944 |
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament,
Aviation, etc.)
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Information & History … |
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The first Athabaskan was
launched on November 8, 1941 and commissioned in 1943. Late in August, 1943,
while senior ship of a group operating in the Bay of Biscay, Athabaskan was
damaged by a German aerial glider bomb dropped from one of several aircraft which
attacked simultaneously. Athabaskan returned to port under her own steam
although one boiler room and two fuel tanks were flooded. In February, 1944, HMC Ships
Athabaskan, Huron, and Haida joined the 10th Destroyer Flotilla based at
Plymouth, England. During an offensive sweep in the English Channel early on
the morning of April 29th, Athabaskan and Haida encountered enemy destroyers
of the Elbing class. Repeated hits were scored and one of the enemy
destroyers was driven aground. During the course of the action Athabaskan was
torpedoed and sunk. The Commanding Officer, LCDR John Stubbs, together with ten officers and 100 men were
lost; five officers and eighty men were subsequently taken prisoner, and one
officer and forty-five men were rescued by Haida and returned to England. |
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