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 September 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 6 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 November 1945 |
| Reclassified: | FFE 319 on 26 November 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 ST) 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 ST) (deep load) |
| Length: | 283 ft (86.26 m) p/p 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.0 km/h) 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships) |
| Range: | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 ST) 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.
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, 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 1945 and placed in reserve.
She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate in 1952 and was recommissioned with pennant number 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 (K538), renamed HNoMS Valkyrien in 1965. She was scrapped by the RNN in 1977.
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