HMCS St. John's

HMCS St. John's at Gdynia, Poland in 2007
History
Canada
Name	St. John's
Namesake	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Builder	Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John
Laid down	24 August 1994
Launched	26 August 1995
Commissioned	24 June 1996[1]
Homeport	CFB Halifax
Identification	MMSI number: 316196000 Callsign: CGAK Pennant number FFH 340
Motto	Avancez (Advance)
Honours and awards	Arabian Sea[2]
Status	In active service
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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 (440.3 ft)
Beam	16.5 m (54.1 ft)
Draught	7.1 m (23.3 ft)
Propulsion	2 × LM2500 gas turbines 1 × SEMT Pielstick diesel engine
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range	9,500 nmi (17,594 km; 10,932 mi)
Complement	245 (including air detachment)
Armament	24 × Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes 16 × Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon SSM 1 × 57 mm Bofors MkII gun 1 × 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 6 × .50 calibre machine guns, FN Herstal, Belgium
Aircraft carried	1 × CH-148 Cyclone
Aviation facilities	Hangar and flight deck

HMCS St. John's (FFH 340) is a Halifax-class frigate that has served in the Canadian Forces and the Royal Canadian Navy since her commissioning in 1996. She is the eleventh of twelve ships in her class which is based on the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. St. John's is named after the city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, a port city associated with Canadian naval history and heritage, and is the first ship in the Royal Canadian Navy to bear the name.

St. John's serves on Canadian Armed Forces missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Atlantic Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and exclusive economic zone. St. John's has been deployed on missions throughout the Atlantic Ocean, to the Indian Ocean; specifically the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea on anti-terrorism operations, to the north as far as Grise Fiord and to the Caribbean where she played a role in helping to stop the flow of illicit drugs to North America. She is assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and her homeport is in Halifax, Nova Scotia.