HMCS Toronto (K538)
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 HMCS Toronto (K538) |
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| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Builder: | Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon |
| Laid down: | 10 May 1943 |
| Launched: | 18 Sep 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 6 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 Nov 1945 |
| Reclassified: | FFE 319 on 26 Nov 1953 |
| Struck: | Apr 1956 |
| Motto: | Be worthy |
| Honours and awards: |
Gulf of St. Lawrence - 1944 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Norway in 1956. Scrapped in 1977. |
| Notes: | Transferred to Norway as HNoMS Garm (K538), renamed HNoMS Valkyrien (K538). |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | River class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,445 long tons (1,468 t/1,618 S/T) 2,110 L/T (2,140 t/2,360 S/T) (deep load) |
| Length: | 283 feet (86.26 m) p/p 301.25 feet (91.82 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 36.5 feet (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 9 feet (2.74 m); 13 feet (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.0 km/h) 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships) |
| Range: | 646 L/T (656 t/724 S/T) oil fuel; |
| Complement: | 157 |
| Armament: |
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HMCS Toronto (K538) was a River class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian class frigate from 1953-1956.
Credit: National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada
Built by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon, she was commissioned into the RCN on 6 May 1944 with the pennant K538.
Following extensive work-up exercises in the vicinity of Bermuda, the Toronto was transferred to Escort Group 16 which operated out of HMCS Protector at Sydney, Nova Scotia. From that time until May 1945 she conducted extensive anti-submarine operations in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, for which the ship was awarded the Battle Honour "Gulf of St. Lawrence - 1944."
After completing five months of training at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Toronto was decommissioned in November of 1945 and placed in reserve.
She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate in 1952 and was recommissioned with pennant number FFE 319 on 26 November 1953.
She was paid off by the RCN in April 1956 and transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Garm, renamed HNoMS Valkyrien in 1965. She was scrapped in 1977.
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