HMCS Skeena (I59)

Casualty List

Navy:

Royal Canadian Navy

Type:

Destroyer

Class:

Pennant:

I 59 

Built by:

Thornycroft (Southampton, U.K.) 

Ordered:

6 Mar, 1928 

Laid down:

14 Oct, 1929 

Launched:

10 Oct, 1930 

Commissioned:

10 Jun, 1931 

Lost:

25 Oct, 1944 

History: HMCS Skeena (A/Lt.Cdr. P.F.X. Russell, RCN) was wrecked during a storm at Videy, Iceland.
This location is right off Reykjavík, the capital. 

 

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