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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 Tribal class, that served in the Second World War, and was named for the First Nations peoples who make up the Athabaskan language group. 

Athabaskan was ordered 5 April 1940 as part of the 1940-1941 building programme, launched on 18 November 1941, and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 3 February 1943.
Athabaskan was heavily damaged by a Henschel Hs 293 glider bomb during an anti-submarine chase on 27 August 1943. She was lost in the English Channel the night of 29 April 1944, torpedoed by the German torpedo boat T-24. Her commanding officer — Lieutenant Commander John Stubbs — was killed in action after declining rescue by Haida to swim back for more crew members.
128 crew lost their lives in the sinking. The wreck is in a shattered condition spread over the sea bed. In 2004, the Canadian Navy provided a brass plaque to be laid on the wreck to commemorate the loss.