Kingston class
Royal Canadian Navy
The Kingston-class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs) are multi-role minor war vessels with a primary mission of coastal surveillance and patrol including general naval operations and exercises, search and rescue, law enforcement, resource protection and fisheries patrols.
Launched between 1995 and 1998, these ships are very flexible. Several types of mission specific payloads can be embarked to allow for rapid role change from one mission type to another such as a mechanical minesweeping system, a route survey system, and a bottom object inspection vehicle.
The Kingston class vessels' homeports are Esquimalt, British Columbia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
At a glance
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Displacement
970 tonnes (full load)
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Length
55.3 metres
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Beam
11.3 metres
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Draught
3.4 metres
Engine
The Kingston-class MCDVs use a diesel-electric engine.
The vessels feature two Jeumont DC electric motors that each drive a Lips azimuthing thruster with a five bladed propeller, powered by four 600V AC alternators driven b y Wartsila SCAM V12 Diesels.
Ships in class
- Kingston (700)
PRO REGE ET GREGE (For sovereign and people)
- Glace Bay (701)
EX FUNDO MARIS (From the depths of the sea)
- Nanaimo (702)
FAITH AND LABOUR
- Edmonton (703)
INDUSTRIA DITAT (Industry enriches)
- Shawinigan (704)
FAIS BIEN CE QUE TU FAIS (Do well what you are doing)
- Whitehorse (705)
AUDENTES FORTUNA JUVAT (Fortune assists the daring)
- Yellowknife (706)
IN ARDUA NITOR (I endeavour in difficulties)
- Goose Bay (707)
FIDELIS (Faithful)
- Moncton (708)
RESURGAM (I shall rise again)
- Saskatoon (709)
FORTIS CEU LEO FIDUS (Brave as a faithful lion)
- Brandon (710)
VIRES ACQUIRES EUNDO (She acquires strength through progress)
- Summerside (711)
SPEM SUCCESSUS ALIT (Success nourishes hope)