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...

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