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| History | |
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| Name | Athabaskan |
| Namesake | Athabaskan |
| Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
| Laid down | 1 June 1969 |
| Launched | 27 November 1970 |
| Commissioned | 30 September 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 10 March 2017 |
| Refit | 4 June 1994 (TRUMP) |
| Homeport | CFB Halifax |
| Identification |
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| Motto | We Fight as One |
| Fate | Scrapped 2018 |
| Notes | Colours:White and Scarlet |
| Badge | Blazon On a field argent, a North American Indian clad in buckskin breeches, leggings and beaded moccasins, but bare to the waist except for a necklace of bear's claws and blue shells, and ear ornaments of the last. The Indian wears the full-feathered headdress and is mounted bareback upon an Indian pony being halted from the trot. The Indian holds a red bow and arrow in the "ready" position, the latter pointing down.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Iroquois-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 5100 t |
| Length | 129.8 m (425.9 ft) |
| Beam | 15.2 m (49.9 ft) |
| Draught | 4.7 m (15.4 ft) |
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| Speed | 29 kn (53.7 km/h) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,334.0 km) |
| Complement | 280 |
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| Aircraft carried | 2 × CH-124 Sea King helicopters |
| Aviation facilities | hangar and flight deck |
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HMCS Athabaskan was an Iroquois-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1972 until 2017. Athabaskan was the third ship of her class which is sometimes referred to as the Tribal class or simply as the 280 class. She is the third vessel to use the designation HMCS Athabaskan.
Athabaskan was laid down on 1 June 1969 at Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon and was launched on 27 November 1970. She was officially commissioned on 30 September 1972 and carries the hull classification symbol 282.
Athabaskan completed a refit known as the Tribal Update and Modernization Project (TRUMP) on 4 June 1994. At this time her classification changed from Destroyer Helicopter (DDH) to Destroyer Guided Missile (DDG). She was assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) homeported at CFB Halifax.
- ^ "Official Lineages, Volume 2, Part 1: Extant Commissioned Ships". National Defence and the Canadian Forces. 7 July 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2014.