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The Canadian destroyer that went on a revenge rampage across the Channel
HMCS Haida became one of the most feared Allied destroyers in European waters after entering service with the Royal Canadian ...
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The meanest toughest last ship to return alone
HMCS Haida was one of the most effective warships Canada ever sent to sea. In less than two years of war, she would sink or ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Second World War-era destroyer HMCS Haida is pulled from dock on Lake Ontario in Toronto on December 11, 2002. (Canadian Press - ...
It’s the most decorated warship in the history of the Canadian Navy, but its most dangerous assignment was to sail across Lake Ontario from Toronto to Port Weller. After 36 years as a showpiece at ...
Every day at sea, nearly 70 years ago, Andy Barber's ears would fill with the sounds of a whistle at 11:25 a.m. He was 21 years old then, a signalman aboard HMCS Haida, patrolling during the Korean ...
Neil Bruce, who died last month at the age of 91, was one of five men who rescued HMCS Haida in 1964 when the ship was on its way to the scrapyard. Some of them mortgaged their houses, others dipped ...
To properly tell a navy story, you really need a good shot of navy rum. But I’m going to stick with coffee. This tale has a lot of moving parts, and I’ll need to keep focus.
For more than 30 years, it sat in the harbour at Ontario Place, a 115-metre-long monument to Canada's naval past. Yesterday, two tugboats, one pulling its stern and the other gently steering the bow, ...
It’s now permanently docked in Hamilton, but 75 years ago, the HMCS Haida helped to defend Allied forces ahead of the Normandy invasion. Parks Canada highlighted the ship’s role in the pivotal moment ...
It was one of those damp, bone-chilling days so common in Halifax in late December when Andy Barber first caught sight of his new posting in the harbour. He didn't think much about it at first. For ...
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