HMCS Toronto - FFH 333

Name:	Toronto
Namesake:	Toronto, Ontario
Builder:	Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John
Laid down:	22 April 1989
Launched:	18 December 1990
Commissioned:	29 July 1993
Homeport:	CFB Halifax
Motto:	"Excellence with Vigour"
Honours and awards:	Gulf of St Lawrence 1944, Arabian Sea;[1] Meritorious Unit Commendation (United States)[2]
Status:	in active service
Badge:	Azure, a mural crown argent, masoned sable, surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw, a marlin spike or.
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)
Beam:	16.5 m (54 ft)
Draught:	7.1 m (23 ft)
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 Mk3 gun 1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 6 × .50 caliber machine guns
Aircraft carried:	1 × CH-124 Sea King