HMCS Regina (FFH 334)
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. Regina (rɨˈdʒaɪnə is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. MIL-Davie Shipbuilding is a Shipbuilding Company in Lauzon Quebec. Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt ( CFB Esquimalt) is Canada 's west coast navy base and home port to the Pacific fleet known as Maritime Forces Pacific Description Weapons Systems The primary weapon deployed by Halifax -class vessels is the CH-124 Sea King helicopter which acts in concert with shipboard 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. The General Electric LM2500 industrial and marine Turboshaft Gas turbine is a derivative of GE Aircraft Engines ' CF6-6 aircraft engine SEMT Pielstick is a French diesel engine manufacturer based in Villepinte, France and owned by MAN B&W Diesel, a subsidiary of MAN AG SEMT Pielstick Designed to attack high-performance submarines the Mark 46 Torpedo is the backbone of the U The RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM is a development of the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Missile used to protect Ships from attacking missiles and The Harpoon is an all-weather over-the-horizon, Anti-ship missile system developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Integrated The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS is an anti-missile system that was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation, Pomona Division WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Description Weapons Systems The primary weapon deployed by Halifax -class vessels is the CH-124 Sea King helicopter which acts in concert with shipboard For the bird see Frigatebird. A frigate /ˈfrɪgɪt/ is a warship 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. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Regina (rɨˈdʒaɪnə is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. A province is a territorial unit almost always an Administrative division. Saskatchewan (səˈskætʃəwən) is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of 588276 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. Commanding officers Lt Cdr Roland Fraser Harris RCNR (22 January 1942 - 23 February 1942 Lt Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar

Trivia

• HMCS Regina was the first of the Halifax-class vessels to cross the Equator and the second to transit the Panama Canal. The equator (sometimes referred to colloquially as "the Line") is the intersection of the Earth 's surface with the plane perpendicular to the The Panama Canal is a man-made Canal in Panama which joins the

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External links

• Official website