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"In 1943, the pride of the Royal Canadian Navy was launched from a British shipyard. Three hundred and seventy feet in length, thirty-seven feet across the beam, a crew of 250 Canadians manned the Tribal Class Destroyer equipped with advanced radar and weapondry. HAIDA began its illustrious career on convoy duty from Britain to Murmansk. On one run the DUKE OF YORK engaged Germany's SCHARNHORST and Commander Sclater vividly describes the great battle which left the SCHARNHORST at the bottom of the sea. The second phase of HAIDA'S duty was patrolling the French coast with sister ships HURON, ASHANTI, and ATHABASKAN. HAIDA'S deadly guns sank a German destroyer but success proved costly -only two nights later ATHABASKAN took a torpedo and began to sink. An incredible tale of survival is told as a rescue crew from HAIDA and six survivors from ATHABASKAN make the English coast in an open launch. On D-Day, HAIDA guarded the Western Approaches against German attack on the armadas making for the French beachheads. Four German destroyers were engaged by HAIDA and her sister ships -two were destroyed and two were crippled. HAIDA closed out the war patrolling the French coast for U-boats and German convoys. |
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