HMCS Nanaimo is a Kingston-class coastal defence vessel, the third ship of her class, which is the name for the Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project. She is the second vessel to use the designation HMCS Nanaimo.
Nanaimo was laid down on 11 August 1995 by Halifax Shipyards Ltd. at Halifax, was launched on 17 May 1996, and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 10 May 1997 at Nanaimo, British Columbia.
The Kingston class ships crewed entirely by members of the Naval Reserve, with the exception of two regular-force technicians per crew.
- Displacement: 970 tonnes
- Length: 55.3 m (181.43 ft)
- Beam: 11.3 m (37.07 ft)
- Draught: 3.4 m (11.15 ft)
- Propulsion:
- 2 × Jeumont DC electric motors
- 4 × 600VAC Wärtsilä SACM V12 diesel alternators
- 2 x LIPS Z drive azimuth thrusters are fitted with fixed-pitch reversing propellers
- Speed: 15 kn (27.78 km/h)
- Range: 5,000 nmi (9,260.00 km)
- Complement: 31 to 47
- Sensors:
- Kelvin Hughes navigation radar (I-band)
- Kelvin Hughes 6000 surface search radar (E-F band)
- Global Positioning System
- Towed high-frequency sidescan sonar
- Remote-control Mine Hunting System (RMHS)
- Armament:
- 1 × Bofors 40 mm 60 Mk 5C cannon
- 2 × M2 Machine Guns