PDP #99: Big Friggin' Frigate
It's not every day that a warship shows up at your (figurative) doorstep. Last weekend saw HMCS Ville de Québec, a Halifax-class frigate of the Canadian Navy, stop at the foot of Yonge Street in Toronto as part of a Great Lakes tour to buff naval volunteerism. If you only see vessels like this in pictures, it's easy to be unprepared for how massive they are. Today's frigate would be a cruiser a couple of generations back, with the effective firepower of a battleship for as long as it's got Harpoons in the tubes.I wrote a novel set aboard one of these ships once. Maybe eventually it'll see the light of day.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYqLgOn6qqA4NMstwb3_8ney4EUs9_i0uDI802DqpqPq8EsriXwZve4baOgssmwlxT94R1emLYtKjbnvsz_sTnTa64WP_fnMI_Xa0U1Jbh2FlVoQC2u6mzn8GecTdG3AQ806LUF6wFss/s320/99.jpg)
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