Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "HMCS Haida - The Last Tribal" video.

  1. She now has a welded 3/4" thick hull rather than a 3/8" riveted one. There is an American Fletcher Class destroyer named "The Sullivans" just over the border in Buffalo NY that had her 1/4" hull rust through and fail about a year and a half ago. She sank at her moorings and that made a very big mess of her insides. The Fletchers were light, fast and cheap to build, hence the thin skin. As the Haida is no longer required to make 34 knots, 3/4" steel isn't such a bad idea for a ship just sitting there.
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  2. Icing on the upper works, masts, antennae, etc. was a great safety hazard as they became so top heavy that they were in danger of foundering from time to time on the North Atlantic. The generation of destroyers that Canada built to replace those ships looked like worn bars of soap and they shed ice (and nuclear fall out) because of their shape.
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  3. There's a big-ass Canadian navy ship just launched and named after your cousin Harry that circumnavigated North America a couple of summers ago.
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  4.  @shaun1293  That's too thin. There must have been all sorts of failures. Imagine hitting a "bergy bit" out in the North Atlantic when your hull is already brittle with the cold?
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  5.  @rediband  The bronze screws ... They're on the ground right beside the gangway. You can glimpse them now and again in some of the frames.
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  6. Marg is a legend. Yay Stokers!
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  7.  @lifeontheX  canada had five of them over time.
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  8.  @thekiatty6953  The ship and fighter replacements were started by the Tories. The Tories were also responsible for cancelling the last third of the CPF Frigate production, thus leaving the Canadian Navy much smaller and shorter of ships. In short, neither party supports the military in Canada because there are no votes in it for either of them.
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  9. Apologies for the rough look of the paint and polish on Haida. A combination of Covid and jurisdictional issues led to its flaky appearance. These are being dealt with.
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  10. There is an active Ham club operating out of her old Radio Room.
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  11.  @cholulahotsauce6166  Yes, indeedy! Also, the Hamilton Meat Pie Co.! (Ask for the Sweeney Todd special ... DEE-licious!)
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  12.  @jenniferclark746  You would have taken the tour by one of my friends.
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  13.  @jenniferclark746  Ahhh ... Father's Day.
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  14. BTW, That 3 inch-50 radar laid anti aircraft gun was specifically developed to counter Japanese Kamikazes so they are technically WWII weapons even if they were installed on the Canadian Tribals post war.
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