HMCS Haida

Museum ship

Type	Destroyer
Class	Tribal
War	Second World War
Main guns	3 × 4.7″ guns

Tribal-class destroyer, the most successful ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. She drove T27 ashore on 29 April 1944 and picked up Athabaskan's survivors, helped wreck Z32 at Ushant, and served in Korea. A museum ship at Hamilton, Ontario.

Destroyer HMCS Haida moored as museum ship at Hamilton, Ontario. Photo taken on December 2, 2006. Source: Photo by me, User:Balcer. Photo: Balcer~commonswiki, CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As G63 (1943–1952)

3 × 4.7-inch (119 mm)/45 Mk.XII twin guns
1 × 4-inch (102 mm)/45 Mk.16 twin guns
1 × quadruple mount 40 mm/39 2-pounder gun
6 × 20 mm Oerlikon twin cannons
1 quad launcher with Mk.IX torpedoes (4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes)
1 rail + 2 Mk.IV throwers (Mk.VII depth charges)

As DDE 215 (1952–1963)

2 × 4-inch/45 Mk.16 twin guns
1 × 3-inch (76 mm)/50 Mk.33 twin guns
4 × 40 mm/56 Bofors guns
1 quad launcher with Mk.IX torpedoes (4 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes)
2 × Squid ASW mortars

Builder	Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Laid down	29 September 1941
Launched	25 August 1942
Commissioned	30 August 1943
Displacement	1,959 long tons (1,990 t) standard 2,519 long tons (2,559 t) deep load
Length	377 ft (114.9 m)
Speed	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) (maximum), 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) (service)
Complement	259 (14 officers, 245 ratings)