HMCS Winnipeg (FFH 338)

HMCS Winnipeg underway in 2001
History
Canada
Name	Winnipeg
Namesake	Winnipeg, Manitoba
Builder	Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John
Laid down	20 March 1993
Launched	5 December 1994
Commissioned	23 June 1995
Refit	HCM/FELEX April 2012 – April 2013
Homeport	CFB Esquimalt
Identification	MMSI number: 316147000 Callsign: CGAI
Motto	Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One with the strength of many)
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1943–45, Arabian Sea[1]
Status	in active service
Badge	Azure, a Bison passant, Or.
General characteristics
Class and type	Halifax-class frigate
Displacement	3,995 metric tons (3,932 long tons) (light) 4,795 metric tons (4,719 long tons) (operational) 5,032 metric tons (4,953 long tons) (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 (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Range	9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi)
Complement	255 (including air detachment)[2]
Armament	24 × Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes 16 × Evolved Sea-Sparrow surface-to-air missiles 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles 1 × Bofors 57 mm gun Mk3 1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 6 × .50 caliber machine guns
Aircraft carried	1 × CH-148 Cyclone

HMCS Winnipeg is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Royal Canadian Navy since 1996. Winnipeg is the ninth ship in her class, whose design emerged from the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second Canadian warship to carry the name HMCS Winnipeg. Winnipeg serves on Canadian Forces MARPAC missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic Ocean and in enforcing Canadian laws on its territorial oceans and Exclusive Economic Zone. The vessel has been deployed on missions throughout the Pacific, and also to the Indian Ocean; specifically on anti-terrorism operations in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea, and counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia. The ship is assigned to the Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC), and she has her home port at the Canadian Forces Maritime Base at Esquimalt.