HMCS Regina (FFH 334) | |
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HMCS Regina (FFH 334) | |
Career (Canada) | |
Namesake: | Regina, Saskatchewan |
Builder: | MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
Laid down: | 6 October 1989 |
Launched: | 25 January 1992 |
Commissioned: | 30 September 1994[1] |
Homeport: | CFB Esquimalt |
Motto: | Latin language: Floreat Regina (Let Regina flourish) |
Honours and awards: | Atlantic 1942-44, Mediterranean 1943, Normandy 1944, English Channel 1944[2] |
Fate: | Active in service |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Halifax-class frigate |
Displacement: |
3,995 tonnes (light) 4,795 tonnes (operational) 5,032 tonnes (deep load) |
Length: | 134.2 m |
Beam: | 16.5 m |
Draught: | 7.1 m |
Propulsion: |
2 × LM2500 Gas turbines 1 × SEMT Pielstick Diesel engine |
Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Range: | 9,500 nautical miles (17,595 km) |
Complement: | 225 (including air detachment) |
Armament: |
24 × Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes 16 × Evolved Sea-Sparrow SAM 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon SSM 1 × 57 mm Bofors Mk3 gun 1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 6 × .50 Caliber machine guns |
Aircraft carried: | 1 × CH-124 Sea King |
HMCS Regina (FFH 334) is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1993. Regina is the fifth vessel in her class which is the name for the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Regina.
Regina was laid down on 6 October 1989 at MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon and launched on 25 January 1992. She was officially commissioned into the CF on 29 December 1993 and carries the hull classification symbol 334.
She is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) and is homeported at CFB Esquimalt.
Service[]
Regina serves on MARPAC missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Pacific Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and Exclusive Economic Zone.
Regina steamed from Esquimalt on 3 July 2012 to the Arabian Sea and joined Combined Task Force 150 on 21 August.[3] She returned to home port on 14 March 2013.[4]
In 2013 the Regina visited Manila, Philippines for a goodwill visit to the Philippines.[5]
Lineage - Regina[]
First of Name
HMCS Regina (K234) Corvette, Revised Flower Class Commissioned 22 January 1942 Sunk by enemy action 8 August 1944
Second of Name
This is the current ship with the name Regina
Gallery[]
External links[]
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References[]
- ↑ National Defence and the Canadian Forces (2012) Offical Lineages, Volume 2: Ships. Retrieved from http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-2/par1/regina-eng.asp
- ↑ National Defence and the Canadian Forces (2012) Offical Lineages, Volume 2: Ships. Retrieved from http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-2/par1/regina-eng.asp
- ↑ "Operation ARTEMIS". Canadian Joint Operations Command. http://www.cjoc.forces.gc.ca/exp/artemis/index-eng.asp. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ↑ Hartland, Louise (14 March 2013). "Emotional homecoming for HMCS Regina after eight months at sea". http://www.ctvvancouverisland.ca/2013/03/emotional-homecoming-for-hmcs-regina-after-eight-months-at-sea/. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ↑ http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/02/12/hmcs-regina-arrives-in-manila/
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