How many frigates does canada have

Crosby said he would not speculate on when the navy will take delivery of the first one. There will be a two-year gap between ships, said Crosby, as the navy and the yard work through any technical issues arising with the first ship.

If that timeline holds, the first support ship will arrive two decades after it was first proposed and announced by the Liberal government of former prime minister Paul Martin. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses.

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Comments are welcome while open. We reserve the right to close comments at any time. While Irving has been pumping out smaller, less complicated arctic patrol ships and Seaspan, in Vancouver, is building coast guard and science vessels, the strategy conceived by the former Conservative government was driven by the necessity of replacing the navy's current fleet of Halifax-class frigates.

Originally, when the shipbuilding strategy was unveiled, it envisioned Canada receiving the first new frigate in A lot of water, wishful thinking and even money has gone under the bridge since then. The current Liberal government, since taking over in and embracing the strategy, has been opaque in its public estimates of the build time; suggesting, in some documents, a delivery time in mids while other more internal records have pegged the first new frigate in the timeframe.

The Department of National Defence, in a statement, acknowledged some of the design and build intricacies are now better understood, and because of that; the first warship will be "approximately years later than the previous estimate. One of the ways they could do that, she said, would be to construct some, less complex modules of the warship early, the way it has been in the navy's Joint Support Ship project at Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyard.

McCoy, a blunt-talking former U. Navy admiral, suggested the expectations going to the surface combatant program were ultimately unworkable because the federal government came in expecting to do a so-called "clean sheet" design; meaning a warship built completely from scratch. It was the shipyard, he said, which ultimately inched the federal government toward building off an existing design because of the enormous risk and expense of purpose-built ships, a position the Liberals adopted in the spring of The selection of the British Type 26 design by the Liberal government has spawned criticism, a court challenge and will figure prominently in upcoming reports by the auditor general and the Parliamentary Budget Officer.

The nub of the complaints have been that the frigate is not yet in the water and is still under construction in the United Kingdom. By David B. Friday, Feb A rendering of the Royal Canadian Navy's next-generation frigate, a project spearheaded by Lockheed Martin. Courtesy of Lockheed Martin. Larter and Aaron Mehta. About David B. More In Naval.

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