Allied Warships
HMCS Skeena (D 59)
Destroyer of the A class
Photo from City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 447-2702
| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | A |
| Pennant | D 59 |
| Built by | Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 14 Oct 1929 |
| Launched | 10 Oct 1930 |
| Commissioned | 10 Jun 1931 |
| Lost | 25 Oct 1944 |
| History | HMCS Skeena (A/Lt.Cdr. Patrick Francis Xavier Russell, RCN) was wrecked during a storm at Videy, Iceland. |
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 | Lt.Cdr. Ernest Patrick Tisdall, RCN | 1 Dec 1939 | 9 Mar 1940 |
| 3 | Lt. Herbert Sharples Rayner, RCN | 10 Mar 1940 | 1 Apr 1940 |
| 4 | Lt.Cdr. James Calcutt Hibbard, RCN | 2 Apr 1940 | 10 Dec 1941 |
| 5 | Cdr. Harry Kingsley, RCN | 11 Dec 1941 | 19 May 1942 |
| 6 | Lt. Kenneth Lloyd Dyer, RCN | 20 May 1942 | 28 Feb 1943 |
| 7 | A/Lt.Cdr. Eric Eversley Garratt Boak, RCN | 1 Mar 1943 | 20 Nov 1943 |
| 8 | A/Lt.Cdr. 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 German U-boat U-57 8 nautical miles north-west of Cape Wrath in position 58°41'N, 05°14'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 German U-boat U-46 about 200 miles west of Bloody Foreland in position 55°41'N, 14°20'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 55°04'N, 12°15'W by German U-boat 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 55°16'N, 12°14'W.
3 Mar 1941
HMCS Skeena (Lt.Cdr. J.C. Hibbard, RCN) arrived at Halifax for a refit.
31 Jul 1942
German U-boat U-588 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 49°59'N, 36°36'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)
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