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HMCS Skeena (D 59)

Destroyer of the A class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassA 
PennantD 59 
Built byThornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 
Ordered6 Mar, 1928 
Laid down14 Oct, 1929 
Launched10 Oct, 1930 
Commissioned10 Jun, 1931 
Lost25 Oct, 1944 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMCS Skeena (A/Lt.Cdr. Patrick Francis Xavier Russell, RCN) was wrecked during a storm at Videy, Iceland.
This location is right off Reykjavík, the capital. 

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)


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