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It was one of those damp, bone-chilling days so common in Halifax in late December when Andy Barber first caught sight of his new posting in the harbour.

A shaky armistice in the Korean conflict had taken hold only months earlier, silencing the guns after three years of bloody, unrelenting warfare.

Laid down in 1941 and commissioned in August 1943, Haida was among a small fleet of heavily armed “tribal class” destroyers acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Under Commander (later Vice-Admiral) Harry de Wolfe, Haida and her crew did that work with a fearlessness that eventually earned the vessel the unofficial title of “Fightingest Ship in the Royal Canadian Navy.”

From his perch at the signal station on the open bridge, Barber would see bloated bodies float past the hull — remains that had to be collected by a nearby South Korean gunboat.

It was originally slated to be scrapped in the early 1960s after being decommissioned but was saved and turned into a floating museum and memorial, initially at Ontario Place in Toronto.

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