HMCS Haida (G63)

HMCS Haida docked in Hamilton, Ontario.
History
Canada
Name:	Haida
Namesake:	Haida
Ordered:	5 April 1940
Builder:	Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Yard number:	41
Laid down:	29 September 1941
Launched:	25 August 1942
Commissioned:	30 August 1943
Recommissioned:	15 March 1952
Decommissioned:	11 October 1963
Out of service:	22 February 1964
Identification:	DDE 215 (February 1952) G63 (September 1964)
Honours and awards:	Arctic 1943–1945 English Channel 1944 Normandy 1944 Biscay 1944 Korea 1952–1953
Status:	Museum ship
Notes:	Now a museum ship and National Historic Site of Canada displayed at Hamilton, Ontario. Colours are gold and azure blue
Badge:	Or, a base barry wavy azure and argent, a thunderbird of the Haida tribe with wings displayed sable.
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,959 long tons (1,990 t) tons standard 2,519 long tons (2,559 t) deep load
Length:	377 ft (114.9 m)
Beam:	37 ft 6 in (11.4 m)
Draught:	13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion:	2 shafts; 3-Admiralty 3 drum type boilers; 2-Parsons geared steam turbines, 44,000 shp (33,000 kW);
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)
Sensors and processing systems:	As G63 (1943–1952): 1 type 268 radar 1 type 271 radar 1 type 291 radar 1 × Mk.III fire control director with Type 285 fire control radar 1 type 144 sonar 1 type 144Q sonar 1 type 147F sonar As DDE 215 (1952–1963): 1 SPS-6C air search radar 1 Sperry Mk.2 navigation radar 1 × Mk.63 fire control director with SPG-34 fire control radar 1 type 164B sonar 1 type 162 (SQS 501) sonar SQS 10 sonar
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 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 torpedo tubes) 2 × Squid ASW mortars
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name	HMCS Haida National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1984

HMCS Haida is a Tribal-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) from 1943 to 1963, participating in World War II and the Korean War. Haida sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian warship. She is also the only surviving Tribal-class destroyer out of 27 vessels that were constructed between 1937 and 1945 for the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and the RCN.

The destroyer now serves as a museum ship on the waterfront of Hamilton, Ontario, and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984.

The Tribals were designed to fight heavily armed destroyers of other navies, such as the Japanese Fubuki class. Canada chose the design based on its armament, with the size and power of the Tribal class allowing them to act more like small cruisers than as fleet destroyers.Haida was among the first batch of Tribal-class destroyers ordered by the RCN in 1940–1941. They were ordered with modified ventilation and heating systems for North Atlantic winter service. Haida's design was modified after deficiencies were noted in the lead ship of the Canadian Tribals, HMCS Iroquois.

Haida, as one of the British-built Tribal-class destroyers, was 335 feet 6 inches (102.26 m) long between perpendiculars and 377 feet (115 m) long overall with a beam of 36 feet 6 inches (11.13 m) and a draught of 13 feet (4.0 m). As built, the destroyer displaced 1,927 long tons (1,958 t) standard and 2,745 long tons (2,789 t) at deep load.Haida had a complement of 14 officers and 245 ratings.