Editing HMCS Haida (section)

{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}
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|Ship image=HMCS Haida Hamilton Ontario 1.jpg
|Ship image size=300px
|Ship caption=HMCS ''Haida'' docked in [[Hamilton, Ontario]], as a [[museum ship]]
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|Ship country=Canada
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Canada|naval-1911}}
|Ship name=''Haida''
|Ship namesake=[[Haida people|Haida]]
|Ship ordered=5 April 1940
|Ship awarded=
|Ship builder=[[Vickers-Armstrongs|Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.]], [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne]]
|Ship original cost=
|Ship yard number= 41
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|Ship laid down=29 September 1941
|Ship launched=25 August 1942
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|Ship completed=
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|Ship commissioned=30 August 1943
|Ship decommissioned=20 March 1946
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|Ship recommissioned=15 March 1952
|Ship decommissioned=11 October 1963
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|Ship out of service=22 February 1964
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|Ship homeport=
|Ship identification=*DDE 215 (February 1952)
*G63 (September 1964)
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|Ship status=[[Museum ship]]
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|Ship honours=*Arctic 1943–1945
*English Channel 1944
*Normandy 1944
*Biscay 1944
*Korea 1952–1953<ref name=a1>Arbuckle, p. 46</ref>
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|Ship class={{sclass2|Tribal|destroyer|||1936}} 
|Ship displacement=* {{convert|1959|LT|t}} standard
* {{convert|2519|LT|t}} deep load
|Ship length={{convert|377|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|37|ft|6|in|m|1|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|13|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
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|Ship propulsion=* 2 shafts; 3 × Admiralty 3-drum type boilers
* 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines, {{convert|44,000|shp|kW|abbr=on}}
|Ship speed={{convert|36.5|kn}} (maximum), {{convert|32|kn}} (service)
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|Ship complement=259 (14 officers, 245 ratings)
|Ship sensors=
*''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 [[AN/SPS-6|SPS-6C]] air search radar
* 1 [[Sperry Corporation|Sperry]] Mk.2 navigation radar
* 1 × [[Mark 63 Gun Fire Control System|Mk.63]] fire control director with [[AN/SPG-34|SPG-34]] fire control radar
* 1 type 164B sonar
* 1 type 162 (SQS 501) sonar
* SQS 10 sonar
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|Ship armament=
*''As G63 (1943–1952)'':
* 3 × {{convert|4.7|in|mm|adj=on|0}}/45 Mk.XII twin guns
* 1 × {{convert|4|in|mm|adj=on|0}}/45 Mk.16 twin guns
* 1 × quadruple mount [[QF 2-pounder naval gun|40 mm/39 2-pounder gun]]
* 6 × [[20 mm Oerlikon]] twin cannons
* 1 quad launcher with Mk.IX torpedoes (4 × {{convert|21|in|mm|adj=on|0}} [[torpedo tube]]s)
* 1 rail + 2 Mk.IV throwers (Mk.VII depth charges)
*''As DDE 215 (1952–1963)'':
* 2 × 4-inch/45 Mk.16 twin guns
* 1 × {{convert|3|in|mm|adj=on|0}}/50 Mk.33 twin guns
* 4 × 40 mm/56 Bofors guns
* 1 quad launcher with Mk.IX torpedoes (4 × [[British 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] torpedo tubes)
* 2 × [[Squid (mortar)|Squid]] ASW mortars
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|designation1=Canada|designation1_offname=HMCS ''Haida'' National Historic Site of Canada
|designation1_date=1984|designation2=|designation3=|designation4=|designation5=}}
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'''HMCS ''Haida''''' is a {{sclass2|Tribal|destroyer|||1936}} that served in the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] (RCN) from 1943 to 1963, participating in [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hmcs-haida-80-birthday-1.6948333 |title=HMCS Haida — the 'fightingest' ship in the Royal Canadian Navy — turns 80 |work=CBC News |last=Brewster |first=Murray |date=26 August 2023 |access-date=27 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826223542/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hmcs-haida-80-birthday-1.6948333 |url-status=live |archive-date=2023-08-26}}</ref> She was named after the [[Haida people]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=HMCS HAIDA G63 / 215 - For Posterity's Sake |url=http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_HAIDA_G63.htm |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=www.forposterityssake.ca}}</ref> Haida was inspected by [[High_Commission_of_Canada,_London#List_of_heads_of_mission|High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom]] [[Vincent Massey]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Section |first=Naval Historical |last2=Headquarters |first2=Naval |last3=Ottawa |last4=Ontario |last5=histories |first5=with special thanks to CPO2 Chris Fraser for retyping these official |date=2019-07-24 |title=HMCS HAIDA |url=https://navalandmilitarymuseum.org/archives/articles/hmcs-haida/ |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum |language=en-US}}</ref> shortly after her commissioning in 1943.

The only surviving Tribal-class destroyer out of 27 vessels constructed for the RCN, the [[Royal Navy]], and the [[Royal Australian Navy]] between 1937 and 1945, ''Haida'' sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian [[warship]] and as such is commonly referred to as the "Fightingest Ship in the Royal Canadian Navy".<ref>{{Cite press release|url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/APPS/CP-NR/release_e.asp?id=562&andor1=nr|title=Canada to Honour "the Fightingest Ship in the Royal Canadian Navy |publisher=Parks Canada |access-date=1 April 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401145917/http://www.pc.gc.ca/APPS/CP-NR/release_e.asp?id=562&andor1=nr|archive-date=1 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-10-23 |title=RCN flagship: HMCS Haida, Canada's "fightingest ship" |publisher=Government of Canada |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/corporate/history-heritage/haida.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220916033707/https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/corporate/history-heritage/haida.html |archive-date=2022-09-16 |access-date=2022-09-16}}</ref>

Designated a [[national historic site of Canada]] in 1984, she now serves as a [[museum ship]] berthed next to {{HMCS|Star}}, an active [[Royal Canadian Naval Reserve]] Division, in [[Hamilton, Ontario]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/lhn-nhs/det_E.asp?oqSID=0550&oqeName=HMCS+Haida&oqfName=N.C.S.M.+Haida |title=HMCS Haida |publisher=Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada}} {{dead link|date=July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{CRHP|7624|HMCS Haida National Historic Site of Canada|1 July 2015}}</ref> In 2018, ''Haida'' was designated the ceremonial [[flagship]] of the RCN.