{"id":1136,"date":"2013-09-02T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2013-09-02T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T00:51:00","slug":"happy-birthday-hmcs-haida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday HMCS Haida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">HMCS&nbsp;Haida&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Tribal class&nbsp;destroyer that served in the&nbsp;RCN from 1943-1963.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Haida&nbsp;sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian warship. She is also the only surviving Tribal-class destroyer out of 27 vessels that were constructed between 1937-1945 for the RN, RAN&nbsp;and the RCN.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em;\">\n<span style=\"-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;\">She was commissioned Aug 30 1943, and just celebrated her 70th birthday. She is now operated by parks canada in Hamilton Ont.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBIvqrl9uD-2VoMTnLnFbWiEv7LliIsAI8RNHv8e_rRxaMiOUkRWcVfOn5-LBqvOMZIWBxKM9ot-AJ1XK66K5uRehHHwLZnAWmrtX7s_HMBFcMtMQiPSrsfz0aIWXcVnoU1wEiEzbkeSyN\/s640\/blogger-image--708164196.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBIvqrl9uD-2VoMTnLnFbWiEv7LliIsAI8RNHv8e_rRxaMiOUkRWcVfOn5-LBqvOMZIWBxKM9ot-AJ1XK66K5uRehHHwLZnAWmrtX7s_HMBFcMtMQiPSrsfz0aIWXcVnoU1wEiEzbkeSyN\/s640\/blogger-image--708164196.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\nI visited her when she was in Toronto in 2002. You can see all the photos from that trip here&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/sets\/72157633272248780\/\"><span style=\"-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/sets\/72157633272248780\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; width: 500px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8659656064\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"HMCS Haida\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HMCS Haida\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8104\/8659656064_22fbc58bd4_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8659657574\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00583\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00583\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8116\/8659657574_8d8f8b1351_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8659657548\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00584\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00584\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8100\/8659657548_7c8ac8e677_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8658552865\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; 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float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00600\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00600\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8100\/8659657052_82b64a3ccb_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8658552361\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00601\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00601\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8123\/8658552361_6ca1997b0a_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8659657004\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00602\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00602\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8106\/8659657004_25d3aee623_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8659656972\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00603\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00603\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8104\/8659656972_72ffc80e92_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8659656934\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00604\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00604\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8120\/8659656934_f8c6f3d3bc_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/8658552235\/in\/set-72157633272248780\/\" style=\"display: block; float: left; height: 75px; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px;\" title=\"DSC00605\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00605\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8103\/8658552235_5a20f8418a_s.jpg\" style=\"border: none; height: 75px; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 0px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hfxshippingnews\/sets\/72157633272248780\/\">HMCS Haida<\/a>, a set on Flickr.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMCS&nbsp;Haida&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Tribal class&nbsp;destroyer that served in the&nbsp;RCN from 1943-1963. Haida&nbsp;sank more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian warship. She is also the only surviving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rescuenotes.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}