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HMCS Toronto (FFH333) Halifax Class Frigate

HMCS Toronto (FFH333) Halifax Class Frigate moored at the CFB Halifax Dockyard in the City of Halifax Nova Scotia Canada

 

Name: Toronto

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, Arabian Sea; Meritorious Unit Commendation (United States)

Status: in active service

Badge: Azure, a mural crown argent, masoned sable, surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw, a marlin spike or.

Class and type: Halifax-class frigate

Displacement: 3,995 tonnes (light) 4,795 tonnes (operational)

5,032 tonnes (deep load)

Length: 134.2 m (440 ft)

Beam: 16.5 m (54 ft)

Draught: 7.1 m (23 ft)

Propulsion: 2 × LM2500 gas turbines 1 × SEMT Pielstick diesel engine

Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)

Range: 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi)

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

 

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