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Canadienne - Frigate FFH 332 HMCS Ville de Quebec |
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class: Halifax class Helicopter Frigate / FFH Builder: MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, Quebec, Canada STATUS: Laid down: December 16, 1988 Launched: May 16, 1991 Commissioned: July 11, 1994 IN SERVICE Homeport: CFB Halifax, Nova Scotia Namesake: Ville de Québec (Quebec City) Ship's Motto: DON DE DIEU FERAY VALOIR (I shall put god's gift to good use) Technical Data: see INFO > Halifax class Frigate |
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                 Halifax class Modernization / Frigate Life Extension (HCM/FELEX) > October 2014 - December 2015                        Bofors 57mm gun     Mk.48 Mod.0 vertical launching syystem (VLS) for RIM-7 Sea Sparrow SAM missiles  Rheinmetall MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)  |
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HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH 332): Ville de Québec was laid down on 16 December 1988 at MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon and launched on 16 May 1991. The frigate was commissioned into the Canadian Forces on 14 July 1994 at Quebec City and carries the hull classification symbol FFH 332. On 9 February 1995, the ship departed Halifax to participate in the NATO naval exercise "Strong Resolve" off Norway. In July, the ship deployed as part of STANAVFORLANT in the Adriatic Sea as part of the blockade force against Yugoslavia. The ship returned to Canada in January 1996. In 1998, Ville de Québec was among the Canadian naval assets that deployed in the search for Swissair Flight 111. In 1999, Ville de Québec joined STANAVFORLANT again for a three-month tour. On 2 September 2005 Ville de Québec was deployed with a joint Canadian Forces Maritime Command/Canadian Coast Guard 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. In 2008, the frigate deployed as Canada's contribution to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, NATO's fleet. On 6 August 2008, it was announced that Ville de Québec would redeploy and help in the protection of NATO relief for Somalia from pirates. The ship arrived on 19 August 2008, escorting World Food Program vessels from Mombasa, Kenya to Mogadishu. During the summer of 2012, the frigate conducted an extensive tour of the Great Lakes, visiting 14 Great Lakes cities on both the Canadian and United States shores to mark the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. Ville de Québec underwent her FELEX modernization beginning in October 2014 at Halifax, 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. The amount of damage was undeclared. The damage was repaired and the ship performed a series of port visits along the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway in September 2016. On 18 July 2018, Ville de Québec departed Halifax to join Canada's Operation Reassurance in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, replacing sister ship HMCS St. John's. Ville de Québec's departure also marked the first international deployment of the Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone helicopter. In October 2018, Ville de Québec was among the Canadian ships sent to participate in the large NATO exercise Trident Juncture in the North Atlantic and Baltic Seas. The ship then deployed to the Mediterranean Sea as part of Operation Reassurance, joining Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 and visiting Israel and Croatia. The frigate returned to Canada on 21 January 2019. source: wikipedia Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir (I shall put god's gift to good use) the "Don de Dieu" was Samuel de Champlain's ship - he founded Quebec City in 1608  Ville de Quebec crest |
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