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HMCS ''Winnipeg'' (FFH 338) is a that has served in the Royal Canadian Navy since 1996. She is a guided-missile frigate that also carries a multipurpose helicopter (especially for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) ). Her missile armament includes Harpoon anti-ship missiles and Evolved Sea-Sparrow anti-aircraft and anti-missile missiles. She also carries ASW torpedoes for close-in defense, and a Phalanx CIWS defense cannon. ''Winnipeg'' is the ninth ship in her class, whose design was based on the Canadian Patrol Frigate Project. She is the second Canadian warship to carry the name . ''Winnipeg'' was laid down on 20 March 1993 at Saint John Shipbuilding Company in Saint John, New Brunswick, and she was launched on 25 June 1994. This warship was officially commissioned into the Canadian Forces on 23 June 1995, and carries the hull classification symbol 338. In April 2012 ''Winnipeg'' was turned over to Seaspan Marine Corporation's Victoria Shipyards, to start an 18 month mid-life upgrading and modernization. On 10 April 2013 ''Winnipeg'' was returned to the Royal CN to finish the midlife refit, and she will renter service sometime in 2014. The ship is assigned to the Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC), and she has her home port at the Canadian Forces Maritime Base at Esquimalt. ==Service== ''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. ''Winnipeg'' also escorted United Nations ships carrying famine, plague, and overpopulation relief supplies to East Africa.〔 〕 On 12 August 2010, the frigate intercepted , a Thailand-flagged ship carrying Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, off the coast of British Columbia. On 23 April 2013, ''Winnipeg'' was accidentally rammed while docked at CFB Esquimalt, by American sea trawler ''American Dynasty'' of the American Seafoods Company. Six people were injured. ''Winnipeg'', accompanied by , and , departed in October 2014 to take part the Task Group Exercise with the US and Japanese Navies in American coastal waters. In January 2015, ''Winnipeg'' was deployed in the eastern Pacific as part of Operation Caribbe 2015, part of a joint multinational effort to eliminate illegal trafficking through the waters around central America and the Caribbean nations. ''Winnipeg'' was deployed to Operation Caribbe for three weeks in June, after which the ship will transit the Panama Canal and join NATO's Operation Reassurance in the Mediterranean Sea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMCS Winnipeg (FFH 338)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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