 HMCS Athabaskan, Canada, Department of National Defence
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| Missing image Rcnjack.png RAN Ensign
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Ordered:
| 5 Apr, 1940
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Laid down:
| 31 Oct, 1940
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Launched:
| 18 Nov, 1941
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Commissioned:
| 3 Feb, 1943
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Fate:
| Lost in action 29 April 1944 English Channel (Torpedoed)
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Motto:
| We fight as one
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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.
See also: List of ships of the Canadian Navy
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