How HMCS Haida teaches an aggressive service tradition

HMCS Haida preserves traces of command personality as well as machinery, including marks where her captain drove a knife into the ship's woodwork. Clarke pairs those marks with stories of an aggressive commander and a Tribal crew willing to charge through danger to reach the enemy. A nearby Royal Canadian Naval Reserve unit regularly brings personnel aboard, linking those stories to a service in which regular and reserve careers intermingle. The discussion adds an anecdote about three naked Canadians taking a submarine, another example used to unsettle a placid national stereotype. Bennett treats Haida as a material way to transmit expectations about initiative and combat leadership without reducing culture to a written slogan.