HMCS Haida - The Last Tribal
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- Опубликовано: 21 мар 2023
- Today we kick off coverage of what I saw in Canada with this look at HMCS Haida.
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The code flags are CGJD which is the ships radio call sign. C for Canadian, G for destroyer and JD to refer to Haida specifically. The crew would fly CGJD while entering or leaving port to help identify the ship.
That engine room is immaculate, and a credit to the volunteers who look after it.
In 2002 the Haida was moved across Lake Ontario from Her berth in Toronto to dry docking at Port Weller Dry Docks (PWDD) in St Catharines. I was one of the welders working at PWDD at that time. The yard's project was to install a water tight steel cladding below Her waterline. I found this to be odd as usually the old and rusty steel gets removed but hey, as I said, I'm the welder and who am I to question the experts.
The world’s greatest warship ever!
We had the same catwalk over the old forward torpedo tube location which were removed earlier in the ships life on HMS Diamond (D35) Daring class destroyer, and it was used when the sea was too rough, with the upper deck not safe to use. This provided a safe access way from forward to the after areas of the ship, through various hatches at the walkway level. There was a small deck hatch situated near aft 4.5 inch, X turret, which took you down to the turret barbette area which included the aft galley, crew accommodation, Heads (bathrooms), sick bay and also a hatchway down to B engine room. Much respect for a fellow stoker in Ms. Mathers, Thank you for the interesting and well-presented tour.
I last climbed her decks four decades ago when she was berthed athwart a pedestal-perched tribute to Bomber Command, and I appreciate the efforts of 'the Crew'. Shout-out the the Preservers who have cleaned, scraped and painted Haida. Respect
Ah, Canada’s most fightingest ship and honorary Texan, always glad to see more about her
Thank you so much for this. My father, Richard Musgrave, served on HMAS Arunta, an Australian Tribal sister of HMCS Haida. He joined her as an electrician as she was being fitted up at Cockatoo Island in Sydney, served as a Leading Seaman in the commissioning torpedo party (so I loved your lingering attention on the torpedo tubes), and stayed with the Arunta til the end of the war, including the Battle of Surigao Strait, where Arunta, despite her meagre 4 tubes, lead a squadron of US destroyers on a torpedo run against the Japanese battleships. I vaguely remember Arunta sitting sadly in Sydney Harbour before she was lead off to the breakers in Japan (a fate she escaped by "mysteriously" scuttling herself under tow, sinking off the Australian coast before she could be dishonoured). Your view of Haida is a precious link for me back to my father's WWII experience.
It's completely false that engineer Mathers has forgotten more about the ship than anyone else knows. She has not forgotten a thing! Great to see you visiting Canada.
Fantastic video.
I hadn't realized how open to the elements all those stations on a destroyer are. That must have sucked in North Atlantic Winter.
HMCS Haida is a proper bucket-list item for me. I hope at some point I'll be able to visit Canada and see her.
As a child I had a model of HMS Cossack. It was a beautiful ship
The Engineer is a treasure as well as the ship.
That engine room is imacculate, I think the trem "thank you for your service" certainly applies to this amazing lady.
Such love and dedication by the staff that maintains HMCS Haida. I think I have found a new lady to visit and I could spend a month walking her decks. Hell,. give me a bucket and a swab.
Thanks Drach - I’m going to download this one and share it widely.
Thanks for including Ms. Mathers. She's great.