HMCS Toronto (K538)
HMCS Toronto | |
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | Toronto |
| Namesake | Toronto, Ontario |
| Ordered | 1 February 1943 |
| Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
| Yard number | 550 |
| Laid down | 10 May 1943 |
| Launched | 18 September 1943 |
| Commissioned | 6 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 27 November 1945 |
| Identification | pennant number: K538 |
| Recommissioned | 26 November 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 14 April 1956 |
| Reclassified | Prestonian-class frigate |
| Identification | pennant number: FFE 319 |
| Motto | "Be worthy" |
| Honours & awards | Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1944 |
| Fate | Transferred to Norway in 1956 as Garm |
| Badge | Azure, a mural crown argent, masoned sable, surmounted by a beaver proper holding in the dexter paw a fid spike or |
| Norway | |
| Name | Garm |
| Namesake | the Ragnarök hound Garmr |
| Acquired | loaned 10 March 1956; purchased 1959 |
| Commissioned | 1956 |
| Decommissioned | 1977 |
| Renamed | Valkyrien (1965) |
| Reclassified | torpedo boat depot ship (1965) |
| Identification | (as Garm) F315 |
| Fate | Sold 1977 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | River-class frigate |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed |
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| Range | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; |
| Complement | 157 |
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HMCS Toronto was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1953-1956. She was named for Toronto, Ontario. She was later acquired by the Royal Norwegian Navy and renamed Garm and then again in 1965 as HNoMS Valkyrien .
Toronto was ordered 1 February 1943 as Giffard (after Giffard, Quebec) as part of the 1943-1944 River-class building program. She was laid down on 10 May 1943 by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. at Lauzon and launched 18 September 1943. Her name was changed to Toronto and she was commissioned into the RCN on 6 May 1944 with the pennant K538.