page_title: Harry DeWolf
section_title: HMCS Haida
hierarchical_section_title: Harry DeWolf / Second World War / HMCS Haida
caption_attribution_description: Destroyer of the Tribal class HMCS Haida (G 63), during World War 2.
context_page_description: Vice Admiral Henry George "Harry" DeWolf CBE, DSO, DSC, CD was a Canadian naval officer who was famous as the first commander of HMCS Haida during the Second World War.
context_section_description: DeWolf took command of HMCS Haida in August 1943. Under DeWolf, Haida earned a reputation as "the Fightingest Ship in the Canadian Navy", and was responsible for sinking 14 enemy ships in just over a year, earning numerous accolades.  Haida and DeWolf saw service with convoys to Murmansk as well as operations to secure the English Channel in preparation for Operation Overlord.  Most of his more famous battles took place at night in the English Channel, when DeWolf secured his reputation as a fearless and skilful tactician and became known to his crew as "Hard-Over-Harry" for bold manoeuvres off the coast of France.  DeWolf earned the Distinguished Service Order for rescuing survivors of HMCS Athabaskan within range of enemy coastal guns on the French coast.
  DeWolf left Haida and was recalled to Ottawa, where he was promoted to captain in September 1944, becoming Assistant Chief of Naval Staff.
caption: HMCS Haida during Second World War. DeWolf was in command of the destroyer from August 1943 to September 1944.
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