Haida: A Story of the Hard Fighting Tribal Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy on the Murmansk Convoy, the English Ch

by Grant MacDonald, Ted Barris, William Sclater

This action-packed, first-hand account chronicles the mission of Canada's most famous naval warship from her commissioning in 1943 to her return to Halifax for a refit in late 1944. The ship began her career on convoy duty from Britain to Murmansk, and the book includes 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 in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019544793X
• ISBN13: 9780195447934
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.1"