HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH 332)
 HMCS Ville de Québec in September 2009 | |
| History | |
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 Canada
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| Name: | Ville de Québec |
| Namesake: | Quebec City, Quebec |
| Operator: | Royal Canadian Navy |
| Builder: | MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
| Laid down: | 16 December 1988 |
| Launched: | 16 May 1991 |
| Commissioned: | 11 July 1994[1] |
| Homeport: | CFB Halifax |
| Motto: | Don de Dieu feray valoir (I will be worthy[1]) |
| Nickname(s): | "VDQ" |
| Honours and awards: | Atlantic 1942-1944, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, Mediterranean 1943, English Channel 1944-1945[1] |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Halifax-class frigate |
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| Length: | 134.2 m (440 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.5 m (54 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.1 m (23 ft) |
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| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range: | 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) |
| Complement: | 225 (including air detachment) |
| Armament: |
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| Aircraft carried: | 1 × CH-124 Sea King |
HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH 332) (commonly referred to as VDQ) is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Canadian Forces and Royal Canadian Navy since 1993.
Ville de Québec is the third vessel in her class which is the name for the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second Royal Canadian Navy ship to be named Ville de Québec and is Canada's only fully bilingual warship.
Ville de Québec was laid down on 16 December 1988 at MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon and launched on 16 May 1991. She was officially commissioned into the CF on 29 March 1993 and carries the hull classification symbol 332.
She is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and is homeported at CFB Halifax. Her Commanding officer is Commander (Capitaine de Fregate) Yves Germain.
Service
Ville de Québec serves on MARLANT missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Atlantic Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and Exclusive Economic Zone.
Ville de Québec has also been deployed on missions throughout the Atlantic and to the Indian Ocean; specifically the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea on anti-terrorism operations and in 2008, supported World Food Program efforts in Somalia.
The ship has also participated in several NATO missions, patrolling the Atlantic Ocean as part of Standing Naval Force Atlantic (STANAVFORLANT) and its successor Standing NATO Response Force Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1).
On 2 September 2005 Ville de Québec was deployed with a joint MARCOM/CCG task force to the Gulf of Mexico to assist the United States with disaster relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. 300 sailors deployed from the task force to Biloxi, Mississippi to assist in the cleanup and reconstruction and the ships of the task force delivered supplies to Pensacola, Florida.[2]
On 6 August 2008, Canadian Defence Minister, Peter McKay, announced that Ville de Québec would help in the protection of NATO relief for Somalia from pirates.
During the summer of 2012, she conducted an extensive tour of the Great Lakes, visiting 14 Great Lakes cities on both the Canadian and United States shores.[3] Ville de Québec underwent her FELEX modernization, completing in December 2015. On 3 March 2016, while performing work up trials, the ship suffered a fire in one of her diesel generators while at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, The fire was suppressed and three crew members were sent to hospital as a precaution. As of 5 March 2016 the amount of damage is unknown.[4][5]
Lineage - Ville de Québec
First of Name
- Corvette, Revised Flower Class
- Commissioned 24 May 1942
- Paid off 6 July 1945[1]
Second of Name
This is the current ship with the name Ville de Québec
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Official Lineages, Volume 2: Ships". National Defence and the Canadian Forces. 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
- ↑ CTV.ca News Staff (14 September 2005). "Canadian sailors go ashore to help in Biloxi". CTV News. Archived from the original on 15 September 2005. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
- ↑
- ↑ Irish, David (3 March 2016). "HMCS Ville de Québec generator catches fire at Halifax dockyard". CBC News. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ↑ "Military officials investigate fire on board HMCS Ville de Quebec". CTV News. Canadian Press. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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