HMCS REGINA (FFH 334)

HMCS Regina
Career
Laid down:	6 October 1989
Launched:	25 January 1992
Commissioned:	29 December 1993
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Displacement:	4,750 tonnes
Length:	442 ft 10 in (134.2 m) overall
Beam:	54 ft 6 in (16.5 m)
Draught:	15 ft 4 in (4.9 m)
Propulsion:	2 x GE LM 2500 gas turbines 50,000 shp (37 MW) Pielstick Cruise Diesel 10,000 shp (7.5 MW)
Speed:	30+ knots (54+ km/h)
Complement:	234 officers and crew
Armament:	24 x Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5 torpedoes 16x Raytheon RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles 8 x Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles 57 mm Bofors Mk2 gun 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 6 x .50 calibre (12.7 mm) heavy machine guns
Aircraft:	1x CH-124 Sea King
Battle Honours:	Atlantic 1942-44, Mediterranean 1943, English Channel 1994, Normandy 1944

'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).
During the Second World War, there was an earlier HMCS Regina, a Canadian-built corvette that sank an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean in 1943, but was itself sunk by a U-boat's torpedo while escorting a small convoy off the coast of Cornwall in August 1944.

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Trivia

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External link

Trivia

★ HMCS Regina was the first of the Halifax Class vessels to cross the Equator and the second to transit the Panama Canal

Gallery

External link

★ Official website