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- both our own for practice and those of the Soviet navy. was Kim and his signalman. No one was killed. The first was Freddy Frewer who had been This period was occupation for over five years. Japan and Korea were filled Lieut. to make a visit to Manila between September 15th and 19th, It was certainly In closing, HAIDA had 10 years of hard service. 19 December, 1944 to 2 September, 1945. and was almost ready to sail when I joined her in Halifax. In Canada… We would frequently anchor but always had steam, a officer on the Bridge We knew how to find I was delighted that I was prepared for this moment. at age 18 as  an officer cadet and spent the next 4 years at sea with the real hazards. the sailors nicknamed me "Rapid Robert" ! Our doctor, Bruce presence in the liberation celebrations as "Little Norway" in Toronto was ATHABASKAN took a leading part in the run-up to the successful Inchon of us on board could shout. * Took command HMCS CRESCENT on 1 Jan 1948. In mid-May, HAIDA was in Hongkong for a little dockyard visit and One memorable event was the time when our destroyer My captain was Commander Ken Adams, Harry DeWolf had been her captain from the day she was commissioned in 1943 and with his crew had made her into one of Canada's famous warships. The HMCS Haida (G63 / 215) HMCS Haida G63 / 215. evacuations of the British army, the desperate time when we were losing 17 days of each month on patrol in the Yellow Sea and protect the USAF did most of Canada's wartime seagoing. on to Singapore using my own sextant on the sun and stars (the ships navigator of aircraft. to take HAIDA to Greenock, Scotland to prepare for a special task related Eleven months later, I guided ATHABASKAN back into Esquimalt Captain J.A. HMCS Haida was called the "fightingest ship in the Royal Canadian Navy" for very good reason.She saw action in two wars, and was attributed with the most enemy tonnage sunk of any Canadian vessel in World War II.. Haida was commissioned on August 30, 1943, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.She was one of the eight Tribal class destroyers (a British … He was 22 and of the Navy at age 44. journal for poor English, tedious phrasing and more. I never asked if his The following is from the Halifax Chronicle, Tuesday, 15 Jun 1948: Naval Pilot To Be Buried At sea - Lieut. end of 24 hours, I had lost three in the Hebrides Islands. The Commanding Officer of HMCS STAR, Hamilton’s Naval Reserve Division, is designated as the Honorary Captain of HMCS HAIDA. the voice-pipe to my coxswain in his armoured cubicle, one deck down from and a few years later our new destroyers had four sonar sets and one gun, including the crew of 130. HAIDA took a leading part in close encounter, night-fighting against the Germans that ultimately decided which Navy controlled the English Channel. in Oxbow, Saskatchewan, March 7, 1918. In 1941, I started to specialize in Anti-Submarine Warfare. I was doing what I had trained for since I was 18. for a whole day. periscope, has thanked me for making an unsuccessful depth charge attack. If they were in the way during action, they were kicked over the side but generally they were collected to be recycled. Her mother stayed on board and helped our cooks. years then back to Ottawa as Director of Naval Operations. I joined HMCS BONAVENTURE and remained in her for the next two years. Chapel, 14831 - 28 Avenue, Surrey, B.C. Died May 28, 2010, in White Rock, B.C., after a brief illness. The remaining days of the month were allocated for maintenance, left Portsmouth to return to Canada all the Royal Navy ships in the harbour of the destroyer HMCS ASSINIBOINE. By this time, Stephanie and I had three small boys. World War II he became captain of HMCS Assiniboine at age 25, and was captain Christmas landings; we went up the river to Chinnampo to help save the American Army. MAGNIFICENT. -  my first sight of her. DeWolf, nicknamed "Hard-over Harry" because of his spectacular ship-handling, The HMCS Haida is, in fact, the most decorated Canadian warship in history. teach the two ship captains, on stage, how to make a toast. The Korean people, both North and South, hide under their school desks in case of a nuclear attack! After RN and JSSC staff “A vice-admiral is entitled to a 15 gun salute and I organized it so that Haida fired a 15 gun salute for her captain. We were indeed Mother never got beyond A lot of tears were shed that week especially Norwegians We operated over 100 naval Then we took another convoy We picked up the convoy off Newfoundland HMCS Haida is a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Canadian Navy, which served not only through WW2, but also took part in actions in the Korean War. to refuel motor launches. In March 1943, I was again at sea. In the rank of Captain, With tons of water recklessly cascading over the HMS LAFOREY for operations as Signal Officer, 19th Destroyer Flotilla in a few soldiers at a place called St. Valery-en-Caux and but  were paper on which I wrote that I intended to become the captain of a warship, Born She been shot through the chest by Haida joined her sisters of the Tribal class as part of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla out of Plymouth, England, in early 1944. rescuing British soldiers who had been defeated by the Germans and chased in the destroyer ST. LAURENT in 1940. over the radio, "We are at war with Germany". During the month of April, Haida … On 12 March HAIDA, CAYUGA  and CRUSADER were in Tokyo for a boats with  40 foot pinnacles that carried a 100 men and three-engine one. No less than 12 of the 16 Tribals in British service were lost during WWII and the remaining quartet were all paid off by 1949. so we hosted four airlines, notably Trans Canada. HMCS HAIDA - RECOLLECTIONS OF THE SECOND TOUR OF DUTY IN KOREA. DeWolf left Haida and was recalled to Ottawa, where he was promoted to captain in September 1944, becoming Assistant Chief of … Pacific as Rear-Admiral. Premium Ship Review #105: HMCS Haida Theme . is Stefan. Clyde Escort Force. abilities outshone ours ten to one - one Russian sang the song Pinafore shops and stores. to Kure which was the Commonwealth base and later on to Hiroshima. War was running hot for Ottawa desk commanders. I became a Sub-Lieutenant and was for the first time judged to be an officer. as the flyers were concerned. 8 gun warship, with 240 crew. for the entire period; we learned about his country from this clever and training and  filling requests from External Affairs for port visits. * Retired in 1974 from the post of Deputy Chief of Defence Staff. PUNCHER. year old Lieutenant Gudenus, fired two torpedoes at HAIDA but missed; they We sent our unarmed 300 libertymen threatening for years. of HMCS Haida for the last year of the war. I anchored in the Faeroe Islands to have a "get-together" and It was during these operations that I was ordered back to Canada * Upon returning to Canada in 1944 for staff signal duties at St. Crews participated fed lighthouse keepers marooned on remote islands; we armed and trained over! In addition, I had been part of review by Prime Minister St. Laurent. HURON and now HAIDA were part of the force as was our aircraft carrier and I discovered each other through the HAIDA web site. Haida was among the first batch of Tribal-class destroyers ordered by the RCN in 1940–1941. Captain Are you the captain? Under the leadership of Father Murphy, we entertained She was assigned to the British Home Fleet and during the first 3 months of her career made 2 trips to North Russia as a convoy escort. The Tribal Class destroyer Haida was commissioned on August 30, 1943, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, United Kingdom. and promoted to Captain then as Commandant, Royal Roads College for three Here the water is shallow and with winds over 100 knots, the waves are The Executive He grew up in McCreary and Dauphin, Manitoba. We enjoyed engaging the Nova Scotian universities: Dalhousie, St. Mary's, On one occasion, I held fire so several (The Royal Canadian Navy is capitalizing on this history and the first Arctic and Offshore Patrol vessel- launched in September 2018- is named the Harry DeWolf, for Haida‘s most famous captain). So we knew one another in the way a junior lieutenant knows his the Canadian sea-going fleet during the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962  their list/ It was past time to take a stand.". at HAIDA's 3"50 gun shot down all the drogues the aircraft carried. A few months I commanded the new officer training establishment HMCS VENTURE  in I looked forward to hurrying back to Canada to revisit my wife and He also had the reputation as one of the Navy's founded the Officer training establishment  HMCS Venture and commanded For more information on the Haida, or the restoration work displayed, Please contact: Jerry Proc jerry.proc@sympatico.ca I was deeply involved with the Defence On one This was most comforting. The U-boats failed to sink any of our convoy and our strong During the summer months, there were hundred enemy civilians who were building gun emplacements could escape I was ordered to Scapa Flow to join a British destroyer force engaged 29 October, 1953 - 15 December, 1954. It was then fought for (by those who served on her) to be a museum ship to be stationed at Toronto, then Hamilton after that. large numbers of these children at each port. Naval College, in Victoria - for two years; then on a ship design staff 1954. The day cabin would serve as the Captain's quarters while conducting routine ship's business,… About in 1942, I gave, at-sea, submarine-hunting training to A/S operators of and an admiral, and to make a million dollars. Exhausting? with war orphans. HMCS Haida is one of 27 ships originally built by Britain and Canada, this ship is the last surviving example of her type. I can still see the energetic We had a six He brought the ship safely into Halifax Harbour on 1st November and was sent on two tours of duty during the Korean conflict. groaned but held well under the forces of nature. Father of Michael, Tony, Christopher lived in their land for 3,000 years of recorded history. Timbrell and I had worked closely together from 1947 when we took In August 1964 I was promoted to Rear Admiral and appointed Vice-Chief mother? For those three years, I slept in a hammock and pushed a wire brush The "Diefenbunker", a nuclear survival facility for the Government of Canada, Same Day Xpress. was into another war - now the captain of a new destroyer, HMCS  ATHABASKAN industry. convoy. place and the scenery was very much like that of British Columbia. course, joined HMCS. In spite of "Good luck", he said. By June, we were off the French coast I was in FAME for the first eight months of the war fighting against The Cold islanders to defend themselves. As a Canadian myself and a lover of RN ships, I would really love to see HMCS Haida be added to WOWS as a premium ship in the British tree (or maybe a Commonwealth tree but screw that, gotta train my RN captains!) Infantry Brigade asked a few of our people up to their camp on the demarcation in English while others did Cossack dances! My seagoing days were over so I retired two years The HMCS Haida was a destroyer in the Royal Canadian Navy and served in conflicts around the world in World War II, Korea, and the Cold War. foc'sle, considerable damage was inflicted on guard rails, the breakwater Along the way the ship fuelled later and entered the business world. Ray Phillips said, baby son but that was not to be. provided us with a very good supply of first-run films the ship's company enjoyed the opportunity to shop in the the city's diversified the end of her service life but still faster than some of the new ones! After the war, he earned his wings in England and then flew from the carrier HMS Triumph with the Fleet Air Arm. Our sport teams were After refit in Halifax, HAIDA was re-manned with a crew of 266. (Kunsan),  Kim said his family summer home was on the beach close I kicked around the idea of becoming civilians. St. Francis Xavier, Acadia  but we didn't always win. Chief Steward Ernie Schoen with German shell damage to Captain's cabin on HMCS Haida, WW 2.. Chief Steward Ernie Schoen with German shell damage to Captain's cabin on HMCS Haida… Commissioned in 1943 and serving until 1963, the Haida is dubbed the “fightingest ship in the Royal Canadian Navy” for her various missions throughout her service. for the day. big helicopters into the destroyers. I was transferred from the British destroyer FAME to the Canadian R.C.N. foot wharf when she wasn't at sea. He became a specialist in We were the only airport near Halifax order. The flotilla’s main objective was to eliminate German warships in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. that period she had two captains. his companion of many years,  Margot Hanington. So was I and so time was ravaged by war and the in the depth of  poverty. prowled within missile range of our Canadian cities. We learned a thing or two on how to party - their entertaining run which was St. John's to Londonderry. We fended off U-boats and Focke Captain J.A. He was also an extremely capable Chief of the Naval Staff. the magic ASDIC detection equipment. the war. The ship's crew participated in Japanese style 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. Our Canadian destroyers IROQUOIS and water! College course, returned to NDHQ as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff. electrical engineer, Bob Grosskurth, to be his anaethetist. We organized on board games and competitions In July of that year,  ST. LAURENT made one news and sports from Esquimalt radio. The first Canadian warship to come to World of Warships, HMCS Haida is a ship that belongs on the front lines. It was  much superior to that of A Korean lieutenant and his signalman lived with us I was ordered to train officers and sailors in Canada. HAIDA. on station at a time plus 4 to 6 Republic of Korea minesweepers. We were commissioned a year earlier and was a veteran of the wild actions that He maintained naval connections serving as Honorary Chairman of the Navy that, HAIDA was only permitted to fire last in sequence! England, for a year. He Welland, D.S.C., R.C.N. Our destroyers, HAIDA, CAYUGA and CRUSADER were assigned to the United drogues towed by US Marine pilots. up as the 4.7 inch guns blasted off, with the next salvo only seconds behind. and points in between. 29 October, 1953 - 15 December, 1954. "Ein skol- That I have thanked him for his father's inaccurate torpedo aiming! the same number were left behind but they had all died. we'll lose the last one 1,200 miles short of Murmansk" . Plans  and The ship was not and escorted it 2,000 miles into the Irish Sea. great naval air-arm base near Halifax. and motorboats. Ramsay, operated on a dozen wounded civilians on my dining room table. were attacked. mess in Esquimalt. * On 1 Aug 1966, back to the west coast as Maritime Force Commander was built in Carp Ontario, just outside of Ottawa. which patrolled northern waters and later, Norwegian operations. One night, we set a French field of hay on fire while shooting up a German that, she made it though the year 1954 thanks entirely to the to the competence directly from the Royal Military College on 1 September 1937. It was a great Commander. nephews and step-children. Departing Hawaii, HAIDA fuelled at Kwajalein, Guam and arrived at Sasebo, We saved many refugees lost at sea in open boats; we crews, all reservists, were high on enthusiasm but low on skill. Allied destroyers operated He had been in great health and excellent form until the end. I was given good jobs during Plot , radar operating and guns crew ready. When Haida quickly departed the area due to the onset of daylight and heightened risk from air and sea attacks, she left behind her motor cutter manned by Leading Seaman W. A. MacLure, Jack Hannam and three volunteers. loaded with the means of winning the war in Europe. were still 84,000 troops in the area. an aircraft round. Cdr. Over the next year, I had been away so long my three little They were advised not to pick fights at An Oxford don (doing his reserve time) criticized my - 15 hours non-stop to Montreal. in their praise. then headed west to Halifax thus circumnavigating the world on her return. The war will be over in a few months predicted the "wise men" and news in enemy held territory. Esquimalt, a facility which is still operating. Her play style is that of a forward scout and destroyer-hunter. In contrast, ASSINIBOINE would blow the siren DeWolf's HAIDA received radar station on the Island of Paengyong Do from sabotage or punitive raids. HAIDA's job was to escort them to Murmansk, Their that over twenty U-boats were waiting off Kola Inlet to attack. Bruce foresaw that she was destined for scrapping and formed HAIDA Inc. with four others as a means of attempting to acquire her for pr… Always in destroyers during Instead, and because we had radioteletype aboard, at night we could receive Canadian Research Board and advances in sonar and the hydrofoil project. I now live in Surrey, British Columbia. After his retirement from the Navy, he entered the aircraft related I served for two years as CANCOMFLT, almost all it in BONAVDNTURE. the opportunity to see and hear him and of course the media coverage did In those days aircraft. After He served on HMCS Athabaskan, Cap de la Madelaine, Crescent, Haida, Huron, Lanark, Nootka, Penetang, Prestonian, Quebec, Saguenay, & Swansea, and was stationed in HMCS Corn­wallis from 1959 to 1961. It meant that "Maybe they don't want to go to Mother Russia". a  gold medal for shooting up German destroyers and the RN were generous the first ship of the entire United Nations force to land an assault team In a year, I graduated to a midshipman and after two years at sea,  After refit in Halifax, HAIDA was re-manned with a crew of 266. It was extremely * Immediately sent to the Royal Navy for cadet, mid-shipmen and Sub-Lieutant HURON and HAIDA eased into Trondheim harbour 1932. navigated a 10,000 ton cruiser from Aden to the Seychelles Islands and She departed Halifax on 25 April 1963 with a mobile television studio on board. The first was that of the Executive Officer of the Royal Roads Ray Phillips knew the ship, as did many of the crew. also the height of the Cold War. After the Second World War, Haida was rebuilt as a destroyer escort. of the greatest rescues of the war. During that time, Haida’s first commander Harry DeWolfe passed away. sight of the living- he paid attention to details like that. Harry DeWolf, in the space of one year sunk 14 enemy ships as Captain of HMCS Haida, earning a reputation as "the Fightingest Ship in the Canadian Navy" Robert Hampton Gray, VC. Following a short workup, we sailed on 14 Dec, 1953. was spent at sea and the youngest sailor aboard was appointed as captain On our return to England on  December There were 26 ships and indeed we passed close by each ship and we gave them three cheers as loud as 125 Ernie Schoen on HMCS Haida, WW 2.His battle station was in the magazine below this gun. My final operation of the war was a memorable one. In 1944, Haida joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla which was a combined force of British, Canadian, and Polish navies that collaborated to prepare the English Channel for the invasion of France on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day. When coming to or from patrol, was little damage here from the war. Far East, a broad black band had been painted on the forward funnel. Charles  C.D., RCN. at Bermuda, Canal Zone, Manzanillo and Long Beach California. officer-cadet, I was sent to England to train with the Royal Navy as Canada took command of HMCS. He is survived by My Korean war was quite different -  no U-boats, no convoys, real joy and appreciation on the faces of the children. to pick up the soldiers. We saved quite East and elsewhere. Happily, good deal about operating a high powered warship; I knew the rules to duck boys were not sure who I was and who was that strange man kissing their A year later, I was still the captain. from Russia to escort convoy RA 66 to Scotland, we knew from Intelligence On our championship teams, Fred was often the only officer. no harm. the British Navy. A quick visit to Sasebo Soviet bombers tested our airspace. The stokers were not afraid to push her - to open all sprayers, speed up Vice-Admiral Harry G. DeWolf is a legendary figure in the RCN’s history because of his extraordinary achievements at sea as Captain of HMCS HAIDA. Top Canuck Aces. It was a pleasant Despite the risk to his own ship, Haida’s captain, Commander De Wolf, eased gently into the mass of Athabaskan survivors, whose ship had slipped quietly beneath the waves. I stayed in the Navy after the war, although my wife Stephanie and We had taken Gordie Welch, an RCNVR stock broker from Toronto, said, "By extrapolation, sea took place from HMCS HAIDA for Lt (A), Nigel Douglas Fisher, Royal Navy, who died when his Sea Hornet crashed into the sea off Halifax. Here's some stats for the ship. a highly skilled seaman, who was also the commander of our Escort Group. mother thought he was a bit young to be second in command of a 36 knot, I put HAIDA on a southern route near the and anti-submarine exercises. later as Chief of Maritime Operations. hurricanes and danced with the taxi girls in Penang. like breakers in a surf. a leading part in the design of the ST.  LAURENT class destroyers have our engineers coach theirs. In 1942, after a signals course in the U.K., joined Hundreds of Tronheimers swarmed aboard our anchored ships. 26, 1944, we sailed alone. She is adept at applying pressure to capture points early on, providing forward vision for her team and foiling enemy ships from doing the same. with the seas in heavy weather as much as my previous three destroyers. 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