HMCS Calgary (FFH 335)

HMCS Calgary in 2014
History
Canada
Name	Calgary
Namesake	Calgary, Alberta
Builder	MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lévis
Laid down	15 June 1991
Launched	28 August 1992
Commissioned	12 May 1995
Refit	HCM/FELEX June 2011 – June 2012
Homeport	CFB Esquimalt
Identification	MMSI number: 316158000 Callsign: CGAF Pennant number: 335
Motto	"Onward"
Honours and awards	Atlantic, 1942–45 Biscay, 1943 Normandy, 1944 English Channel, 1944–45 North Sea, 1945[1] Arabian Sea[2]
Status	in active service
Badge	Or, a bend wavy azure charged with a like bendlet argent. In front across the centre of a bow stringed fess-wise, and arrow point upwards in pale, both sable.
General characteristics
Class and type	Halifax-class frigate
Displacement	3,995 tonnes (light) 4,795 tonnes (operational) 5,032 tonnes (deep load)
Length	134.2 m (440 ft 3 in)
Beam	16.5 m (54 ft 2 in)
Draught	7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
Propulsion	2 × LM2500 gas turbines 1 × SEMT Pielstick diesel engine
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi)
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 MkIII gun 1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 6 × .50 caliber machine guns
Aircraft carried	1 × CH-148 Cyclone

HMCS Calgary is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Canadian Forces and Royal Canadian Navy since 1995. Calgary is the sixth vessel in her class and the second vessel to carry the name Calgary. She was built as part of the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. Calgary began the FELEX (Frigate Equipment Life Extension) refit in June 2012. She is assigned to Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC) and is homeported at CFB Esquimalt.^[3] Calgary serves on MARPAC missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Pacific Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and exclusive economic zone.