HMCS Saskatoon (MM 709) | |
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File:HMCS Saskatoon.jpg | |
Career (Canada) | |
Namesake: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
Builder: | Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax |
Laid down: | 5 September 1997 |
Launched: | 30 March 1998 |
Commissioned: | 5 December 1998 |
Homeport: | CFB Esquimalt |
Honours and awards: | Atlantic, 1942-45 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Kingston-class coastal defence vessel |
Displacement: | 970 tonnes |
Length: | 55.3 m (181.43 ft) |
Beam: | 11.3 m (37.07 ft) |
Draught: | 3.4 m (11.15 ft) |
Propulsion: |
2 x Jeumont DC electric motors 4 x 600VAC Wärtsilä SACM V12 diesel alternators |
Speed: | 15 kn (27.78 km/h) |
Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,260.00 km) |
Capacity: | 47 |
Complement: | 31 to 47 |
Sensors and processing systems: |
Kelvin Hughes navigation radar (I-band) Kelvin Hughes 6000 surface search radar (E-F band) Global Positioning System A towed high-frequency sidescan sonar Remote-control Mine Hunting System (RMHS) |
Armament: |
1 x Bofors 40 mm 60 Mk 5C cannon 2 x M2 Machine Guns |
HMCS Saskatoon (MM 709) is a Kingston-class coastal defence vessel that has served in the Canadian Forces since 1998.
Saskatoon is the tenth ship of her class which is the name for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. She is the second vessel to use the designation HMCS Saskatoon, after the Flower class corvette HMCS Saskatoon (K158). The ship is named after the Canadian city of Saskatoon, and includes other references to the city such as naming the captains desk Cranberry Flats and a main corridor after Idylwyld Drive.[1]
Saskatoon was laid down on 5 September 1997 at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax and was launched on 30 March 1998. She was officially commissioned into the CF on 5 December 1998 and carries the pennant number 709.
She is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) and is homeported at CFB Esquimalt.
References[]
- ↑ "HMCS SASKATOON". Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. University of Regina. http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/hmcs_saskatoon.html. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
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