HALIFAX - The second of two navy ships sent to Haiti to help with relief efforts is returning home.

HMCS Athabaskan is scheduled to arrive in Halifax on Wednesday morning after an eight-week deployment to the earthquake-ravaged country.

HMCS Halifax returned home on March 2.

The destroyer Athabaskan, with a crew of 240, provided relief to the residents of Leogane in Haiti.

The earthquake in January killed about 200,000 people.