HMCS MONTRÉAL 336

Halifax Class Frigate

She was floated up on 26 Feb1992 and provisionally accepted on 27 Jul 1993. After a series of trials, she was commissioned at MONTRÉAL on 21 Jul 1994, and designated a French Language Unit. On 04 Jan 1995, MONTRÉAL sailed from Halifax to join NATO's SNFL in the Adriatic Sea, blockading the former Yugoslavia. While so employed she conducted 187 hailings, 57 boardings and diverted 4 vessel. During this tour she twice acted as flagship and returned home on 19 Jul 1995. During 1997, 12,500 anechoic tiles were applied to MONTRÉAL's hull in order to reduce noise. This experiment was not entirely successful, and no other CPFs were so fitted. On 10 Aug 1998, MONTRÉAL departed Halifax to join the NATO fleet off Florida, and with its Immediate Reaction Force paid an epoch-making visit to St. Petersburg, to celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Russian navy. She was back in Halifax on 15 Dec 1998. During the summer of 2000 MONTRÉAL represented Canada in the Millennium International Fleet Review in New York City, then escorted the Tall Ships to Halifax, where she acted as flagship for the Commander-in-Chief, Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson, to review the Tall Ships sail past. The following week she was deployed to support ATHABASKAN in Operation Megaphone, the boarding and escorting of GTS Katie to Bécancour, Quebec.

On 26 Mar 2023, HMCS MONTRÉAL departed Halifax for a deployment in the Indo-Pacific region.

Photos and Documents          Gunshield and Shipboard Art

Commanding Officers

     In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice    

     Lest We Forget     

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

Former Crew Members

Photos and Documents

Commissioning Book

21 Jul 1994

(MTL001) The future HMCS Toronto, HMCS Vancouver and HMCS MONTRÉAL under construction at Saint John Shipbuilding, Mar 1992  //  Courtesy of Dean Lang

(MTL002) HMCS MONTRÉAL 336 - 1993  //  Courtesy of the Naval Museum of Halifax

(MTL003) HMCS MONTRÉAL 336 lit up for Christmas, Dec 1993  //  Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

HMCS MONTRÉAL'S 20th Anniversary Gala Event

(MTL004) Invitation to the 20th Anniversary

(MTL005) Power Point Presentation for the 20th Anniversary

(MTL006) Speaker Notes (PDF file)

Courtesy of Brad Browne

(MTL007) HMCS MONTRÉAL 336 - 2015  //  Photographer: Jacek Szymanski, RCN Broadcast Unit  //  DND-RCN Photo 2015

(MTL008) HMCS MONTRÉAL 336, enroute to Plymouth, England, passes Wolf Rock with battle ensign flying - Oct 2015  //  Historical note:  On 17 Dec 1944, her predecessor, the River Class frigate, HMCS MONTRÉAL K319 rescued the survivors of U-1209, wrecked on Wolf Rock, southwest of Land's End  //  DND-RCN photo 2015

(MTL009) HMCS MONTRÉAL 336 conducting a RAS approach during Work-Ups - Mar 2015

(MTL010) Committal of Ashes of 22 veterans takes place on HMCS MONTRÉAL off Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, NS on Battle of the Atlantic Sunday, 01 May 2016  //  Courtesy of Bill Gard

(MTL011 - MTL012) On September 19, 2017, HMCS MONTRÉAL took time from their operation to honour and remember the officers and sailors of HMCS ATHABASKAN who were lost at sea when the ship was torpedoed and sank off the coast of France on April 29, 1944 during the Second World War. As HMCS Montréal transited north as part of NEPTUNE TRIDENT 17-02, the ship’s company laid a wreath at sea over the area where HMCS ATHABASKAN sank. The wreath was laid by those who served on HMCS ATHABASKAN (3rd of name), named after the original ATHABASKAN, whose members felt a close connection to the ship and its history.  //  DND-RCN Photos 2017

(MTL013) HMCS MONTRÉAL (foreground) during Operation Joint Warrior 172 in the Irish Sea - Oct 2017  //  DND-RCN  2017

(MTL014) HMCS MONTRÉAL transiting the Norwegian Sea - Oct 2017  //  Photographer unknown

(MTL015) HMCS MONTRÉAL patrols the Mediterranean Sea during Operation REASSURANCE - 04 Apr 2022  //  Photographer: Cpl Braden Trudeau

(MTL016) HMCS MONTRÉAL and its embarked CH-148 helicopter as part of NATO’s Maritime Command on Operation REASSURANCE - Apr 2022  //  DND- RCN photo

(MTL017) HMCS MONTRÉAL and its embarked CH-148 helicopter are joined by an Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140 Aurora Long Range Patrol aircraft as part of NATO’s Maritime Command on Operation REASSURANCE - Apr 2022  //  DND- RCN photo

(MTL018) HMCS Montréal transits Norwegian Fjords during EX FORMIDABLE SHIELD as part of OP REASSURANCE - 07 May 2025  //  Photographer: Cpl Morgan LeBlanc