HMCS Regina (FFH 334)
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For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Regina (K234).
_1.jpg/300px-HMCS_Regina_(FFH_334)_1.jpg) HMCS Regina (FFH 334) |
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| Career (Canada) |  |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | City of Regina, Saskatchewan |
| Builder: | MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, QC |
| Laid down: | 6 October 1989 |
| Launched: | 25 January 1992 |
| Commissioned: | 29 December 1993 |
| Homeport: | CFB Esquimalt |
| Motto: | Floreat Regina (Let Regina flourish) |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1942-44, Mediterranean 1943, English Channel 1994, Normandy 1944 |
| Fate: | Active in service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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 Mk2 gun 1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 6 × .50 Caliber machine guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × CH-124 Sea King |
HMCS Regina (FFH 334) is the fifth of the Halifax-class line of frigates. It was built in Lauzon, Quebec at M.I.L.Davie with a significant number of ship's units also built at M.I.L. Tracy in Sorel/Tracy, Quebec and floated up the St. Lawerence Seaway by barge.
The ship is the namesake of the City of Regina, which is the capital of the province of Saskatchewan. HMCS Regina was also one of the ships of the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (abbreviated RIMPAC).
There was an earlier Canadian ship of the same name, the corvette HMCS Regina (K234), which sank an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean but was later sunk by a U-boat's torpedo while escorting a small convoy off the coast of Cornwall in August 1944.
[edit] Trivia
- HMCS Regina was the first of the Halifax-class vessels to cross the Equator and the second to transit the Panama Canal.
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