HMCS Toronto (FFH 333) | |
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HMCS Toronto (FFH 333) | |
Career (Canada) | |
Namesake: | Toronto, Ontario |
Builder: | Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John |
Laid down: | 22 April 1989 |
Launched: | 18 December 1990 |
Commissioned: | 29 July 1993 |
Homeport: | CFB Halifax |
Motto: | "Excellence with Vigour" |
Honours and awards: | Gulf of St Lawrence, 1944 |
Status: | Active in service |
Badge: | Azure,a mural crown argent,masoned sable,surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw,a marlin spike or. |
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 Toronto (FFH 333) is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1993.
Toronto was laid down on 22 April 1989 at Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John and launched on 18 December 1990. She was commissioned into the Canadian Forces on 29 July 1993 and carries the hull classification symbol 333. Toronto is the fourth ship in her class which is the name for the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second vessel to carry the designation HMCS Toronto.
Service[]
She is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and is homeported at CFB Halifax. Toronto serves on MARLANT missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Atlantic Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and Exclusive Economic Zone.
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