HMCS Athabaskan

Template:Use Canadian English Template:Italic title prefixed Several Canadian naval ships have been named HMCS Athabaskan. All named for the Athabaskan people and destroyers. First ship was British built, the other two in Canada.

• Template:HMCS, a Template:Sclass2, commissioned in 1943 and torpedoed in the English Channel off French coast on 29 April 1944.
• Template:HMCS, later renumbered (DDE 219), was a Tribal-class destroyer commissioned in 1947. Scrapped 1970.
• Template:HMCS is an Template:Sclass, commissioned in 1972. Remained in service longer than her three sister ships, and was paid off in March 2017.

Battle Honours

• Arctic, 1943–44 – blockade patrols in North Atlantic
• English Channel, 1944 – Operation Hostile and Operation Tunnel
• Korea, 1950–53 – three tours by providing naval gunfire support operations off the Korean coastline
• Gulf and Kuwait

References

• Government of Canada Ships' Histories - HMCS Athabaskan