| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | A |
| Pennant | D 59 |
| Built by | Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 6 Mar 1928 |
| Laid down | 14 Oct 1929 |
| Launched | 10 Oct 1930 |
| Commissioned | 10 Jun 1931 |
| Lost | 25 Oct 1944 |
| Loss position | |
| History | HMCS Skeena (A/Lt.Cdr. Patrick Francis Xavier Russell, RCN) was wrecked during a storm at Videy, Iceland. Commanding Officers: Lt.Cdr. Ernest Patrick Tisdall, RCN Lt. Herbert Sharples Rayner, RCN Lt.Cdr. James Calcutt Hibbard, RCN Cdr. Harry Kingsley, RCN A/Lt.Cdr. Kenneth Lloyd Dyer, RCN A/Lt.Cdr. Eric Eversley Garratt Boak, RCN A/Lt.Cdr. Patrick Francis Xavier Russell, RCN |
Commands listed for HMCS Skeena (D 59)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Cdr. Harold Taylor Wood Grant, RCN | 23 Apr 1938 | 30 Nov 1939 |
| 2 | Ernest Patrick Tisdall, RCN | 1 Dec 1939 | 9 Mar 1940 |
| 3 | Herbert Sharples Rayner, RCN | 10 Mar 1940 | 1 Apr 1940 |
| 4 | James Calcutt Hibbard, RCN | 2 Apr 1940 | 10 Dec 1941 |
| 5 | Harry Kingsley, RCN | 11 Dec 1941 | 19 May 1942 |
| 6 | Kenneth Lloyd Dyer, RCN | 20 May 1942 | 28 Feb 1943 |
| 7 | Eric Eversley Garratt Boak, RCN | 1 Mar 1943 | 20 Nov 1943 |
| 8 | Patrick Francis Xavier Russell, RCN | 21 Nov 1943 | 25 Oct 1944 |
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Noteable events involving Skeena include:
17 Jul 1940
HMCS Skeena (Lt.Cdr. J.C. Hibbard, RCN) picks up 65 survivors from the British merchant Manipur that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-57 8 nautical miles north-west of Cape Wrath in position 58º41'N, 05º14'W.
2 Sep 1940
HMCS Skeena (Lt.Cdr. J.C. Hibbard, RCN) picks up 19 survivors from the British merchant Thornlea that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-46 about 200 miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55º41'N, 14º20'W.
23 Nov 1940
HMCS Skeena (Lt.Cdr. J.C. Hibbard, RCN) picks up 6 men from the Norwegian merchant Bruce that was torpedoed and damaged west of Ireland in position 55º04'N, 12º15'W by the German submarine U-100.
Skeena also picks up 9 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Salonica that was torpedoed and sunk by U-100 west of Ireland in position 55º16'N, 12º14'W.
3 Mar 1941
HMCS Skeena (Lt.Cdr. J.C. Hibbard, RCN) arrives at Halifax for a refit.
31 Jul 1942
The German submarine U-588 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 49º59'N, 36º36'W, by depth charges from the Canadian corvette HMCS Wetaskiwin (Lt.Cdr. G.S. Windeyer, RCN) and the Canadian destroyer HMCS Skeena (A/Lt.Cdr. D.L. Dyer, RCN). (see map)