HMCS Athabaskan (G07)

HMCS Athabaskan (G07)

HMCS "Athabaskan" (G07) 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 torpedoed 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.

There does exist some speculation that "Athabaskan" was in fact lost to a friendly fire incident after being accidentally torpedoed by a British Motor Torpedo Boat, or that she suffered some sort of catastrophic internal explosion in the #1 Boiler Room. However, due to the poor condition of the wreck after some 60 or so years of lying in strong currents, as well as the poor record-keeping and incomplete logs of other ships in the area at the time of her sinking, neither of these theories have yet been confirmed.

ee also

*List of ships of the Canadian Navy

External links

* http://www.jproc.ca/cta/athab1.html


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