Yang do, Korea. HAIDA pays her “final dues” in membership to the Trainbusters Club. That is HMCS HAIDA’s second train and becomes # 2 Trainbuster after HMCS CRUSADER. May 26, 1953 Yang do, Korea. HAIDA pays her “final dues” in membership to the Trainbusters Club. That is HMCS HAIDA’s second train and becomes # 2 Trainbuster after HMCS CRUSADER.
Battle of Ushant. Night action, Normandy. HMCS HAIDA and HMCS HURON destroy the German Narvik class destroyer Z 32 in a gun duel off Ile de Bas. (Captain DeWolf’s 2nd DSC.) June 9, 1953 Battle of Ushant. Night action, Normandy. HMCS HAIDA and HMCS HURON destroy the German Narvik class destroyer Z 32 in a gun duel off Ile de Bas. (Captain DeWolf’s 2nd DSC.)
HMCS HAIDA arrives Halifax and begins tropicalization refit. June 10, 1953 HMCS HAIDA arrives Halifax and begins tropicalization refit.
A burial at 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. June 16, 1953 A burial at 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.
HMCS HAIDA and HMS ESKIMO sink U 971 off Land’s End. June 24, 1953 HMCS HAIDA and HMS ESKIMO sink U 971 off Land’s End.
HMCS HAIDA sinks German minesweeper M486 off Ile d’Yeu, Bay of Biscay. LS R.H. Betts, and AB G.J. Rowe, both killed in action Aug 6, 1944. A/S Kerwin awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. (This was the second CGM awarded to the RCN. The first was Max Bernay’s on August 6, 1942). August 6, 1953 HMCS HAIDA sinks German minesweeper M486 off Ile d’Yeu, Bay of Biscay. LS R.H. Betts, and AB G.J. Rowe, both killed in action Aug 6, 1944. A/S Kerwin awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal. (This was the second CGM awarded to the RCN. The first was Max Bernay’s on August 6, 1942).
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