&sq=&lang=&file=File:Toronto_k538.jpg) HMCS Toronto
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| History | |
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 Canada | |
| Name | Toronto |
| Namesake | Toronto, Ontario |
| Ordered | 1 February 1943 |
| Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
| Yard number | 550 |
| Laid down | 10 May 1943 |
| Launched | 18 September 1943 |
| Commissioned | 6 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 27 November 1945 |
| Identification | pennant number: K538 |
| Recommissioned | 26 November 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 14 April 1956 |
| Reclassified | Prestonian-class frigate |
| Identification | pennant number: FFE 319 |
| Motto | "Be worthy" |
| Honours and awards | Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1944[1] |
| Fate | Transferred to Norway in 1956 as Garm |
| Badge | Azure, a mural crown argent, masoned sable, surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw a fid spike or[2] |
 Norway | |
| Name | Garm |
| Namesake | the Ragnarök hound Garmr |
| Acquired | loaned 10 March 1956; purchased 1959 |
| Commissioned | 1956 |
| Decommissioned | 1977 |
| Renamed | Valkyrien (1965) |
| Reclassified | torpedo boat depot ship (1965) |
| Identification | (as Garm) F315 |
| Fate | Sold 1977 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | River-class frigate |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
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| Range | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; |
| Complement | 157 |
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HMCS Toronto was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1953-1956. She was named for Toronto, Ontario. She was later acquired by the Royal Norwegian Navy and renamed Garm and then again in 1965 as HNoMS Valkyrien .
Toronto was ordered 1 February 1943 as Giffard (after Giffard, Quebec) as part of the 1943-1944 River-class building program.[3][4] She was laid down on 10 May 1943 by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. at Lauzon and launched 18 September 1943.[4] Her name was changed to Toronto and she was commissioned into the RCN on 6 May 1944 with the pennant K538.[5]
- ^ "Battle Honours 2". Veterans Affairs Canada. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- ^ Arbuckle, p. 122
- ^ Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
- ^ a b "HMCS Toronto (K 538)". uboat.net. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
- ^ Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J. (1968). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. New York: Doubleday and Company Inc. p. 229.