Canadian Navy Training and Surveillance Ships-Nanaimo BC

The Orca class is a ship class of eight steel-hulled Canadian navy Training Tenders. Loosely based on the Australian-designed Pacific-class patrol boat, the Orca class was constructed by Victoria Shipyards between November 2004 and November 2008, at a total project cost of C$90.7 million. All eight are based at CFB Esquimalt in British Columbia. They replaced the YAG 300 class and primarily operate as training platforms and surveillance craft.

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• Orca class ships
• canadian navy
• patrol ships
• navy nanaimo
• HMCS Orca
• HMCS Grizzly

[CanMauserK98]

LOL, I was assigned to ORCA 55 when this was taken!

[capnvancouver]

is that you filling your face on the stern? LOL

I took the video last summer(summer 2011)

[swisscosmo]

What class of boats does Canada use to do patrol? as the Aussies use the Arm-idle class but the orca looks the closest despite being a training boat.

[capnvancouver]

I think the Halifax Class frigate

[CanMauserK98]

@capnvancouver No, that isn't me. I guess I was slaving away over ECPINS at that point.

[MrLaughinghyena]

@swisscosmo We use MCDVs for patrol. Australia uses the Armidale class.

The Orca is based on the Pacific-Class.

[mattcormier]

@swisscosmo Maritime Coastal Defense Vessels (MCDVs) are used for coastal and inter-coastal patrol

[Litterboxer529]

Awesome boat. 

[MrNeocaligus]

I have pictures of all of them. There cool ships.