Designed For Speed

 

while Haida is 377 feet long and displaces 2,745 tons the beam is only 36.5 feet a key factor no doubt in her ability to do up to 36.5 knots. Given the role of a destroyer this emphasis on speed was a critical design element and perfectly understandable. Pity the poor crew though when faced with heavy weather which was all too common on the Murmansk run. I can only imagine the ship's motion would have been very unsettling in heavy seas.

 

 

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