Haida: A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy on the Murmansk Convoy, the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay (Wynford Project)

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This action-packed, first-hand account chronicles the mission of Canada’s such a lot famous naval warship from her commissioning in 1943 to her go back to Halifax for a refit in overdue 1944. The ship started her career on convoy duty from Britain to Murmansk, and the book features a vivid description of the battle between the HMS Duke of York and the German Scharnhorst that led to the Scharnhorst‘s destruction. Haida went on to patrol the French coast within the months leading as much as D-Day, after which along with her sister ships guarded the Western Approaches on D-Day itself, sinking two German destroyers and crippling two more. Commander William Sclater witnessed these events first-hand, and his description-in conjunction with paintings by Grant Macdonald-provides a vivid recounting of the heroic days of the Second World War.

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