HMCS Toronto (K538) | |
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HMCS Toronto | |
Career (Canada) | |
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 |
Struck: | April 1956 |
Identification: |
Pennant number: K538 (FFE 319 from 26 November 1953) |
Motto: | "Be worthy" |
Honours and awards: | Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1944[1] |
Fate: | Transferred to Norway in 1956 as Garm, renamed Valkyrien. Scrapped in 1977. |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | River-class frigate |
Displacement: |
1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 short tons) 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 short tons) (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 short tons) oil fuel; |
Complement: | 157 |
Armament: |
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HMCS Toronto was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1953-1956. It was later renamed Garm and HNoMS Valkyrien by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
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 Garm, renamed Valkyrien in 1965. She was scrapped by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1977.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ "Battle Honours 2". Veterans Affairs Canada. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/battlegulf/canwarship. Retrieved 18 Sept 2013.
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