HMCS Regina (FFH 334)
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There is another Canadian naval vessel named after the city of Regina, the Flower class corvette HMCS Regina (K234).
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| 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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- 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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