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HMCS ''Athabaskan'' was the first of three destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy to bear this name. It was a destroyer of the , that served in the Second World War. She was named for the First Nations peoples who make up the Athabaskan language group. She was torpedoed in the English Channel and sunk in 1944. ''Athabaskan'' was ordered 5 April 1940 as part of the 1940-1941 building programme.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HMCS Athabaskan (i) (G07) )〕 She was laid down in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1940 by Vickers Armstrong of Newcastle upon Tyne and constructed in consort with Parsons engine works. She was launched on 18 November 1941 and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 3 February 1943.〔 ==Service history== HMCS ''Athabaskan'' had a relatively short service of about 14 months between her commissioning and sinking. The ship also experienced several major mishaps and battle damage that required her being taken out of service for repairs for a total of about five months. When these repair periods are taken into account, ''Athabaskan'' was available for actual service at sea for a total of only nine months prior to her sinking. After a short work-up subsequent to commissioning on 3 February 1943, ''Athabaskan'' sailed on 29 March 1943 to patrol the Iceland-Faeroes Passage for blockade runners, but heavy seas damaged her hull, which took five weeks to repair at South Shields. Shortly after returning to service, in early June 1943 she took part in Operation Gearbox III, the relief of the garrison at Spitsbergen. On 18 June 1943, ''Athabaskan'' sustained damage during a collision with the boom defence vessel ''Bargate'' at Scapa Flow, resulting in a month under repair at Devonport. In July and August 1943, she was based in Plymouth, carrying out anti-submarine patrols in the Bay of Biscay. ''Athabaskan'' was heavily damaged by a Henschel Hs 293 glider bomb during an anti-submarine chase off Cape Ortegal, in the Bay of Biscay, on 27 August 1943. was sunk in the same incident.〔 The glider bomb passed entirely through ''Athabaskan'' before detonating on the outside of the ship. Returning to Scapa Flow in December, 1943 she escorted convoy JW55A to the Soviet Union but in February 1944, rejoined Plymouth command and was assigned to the newly formed 10th Destroyer Flotilla carrying out ‘Operation Hostile’ (Minelaying) and ‘Operation Tunnel’ (Patrol) missions off the coast of France. On 26 April, she assisted in the destruction of the German in the English Channel off Ushant as part of an ‘Operation Tunnel’ mission that included the British cruiser , destroyer and Canadian Tribals , and ''Athabaskan''. Three days later ''Athabaskan'' was sunk in another action. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMCS Athabaskan (G07)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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