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Canadian warship HMCS Calgary by esquimalt mfrc - 

Canadian warship Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Calgary is making a visit to Jakarta from July 1-3 as it sails through the Indo-Pacific on Operation PROJECTION. 

In a release received by VOI RRI from the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta, Friday, the ship will conduct a cooperative deployment with the Indonesian Naval Ship KRI Bung Tomo on July 3 before heading to the coast of Australia where it will practice interoperability with Australian, American, and other regional partners during Exercise TALISMAN-SABRE. 

Canadian Ambassador to Indonesia, Cameron MacKay, accompanied by Canadian Ambassador to ASEAN, Diedrah Kelly, visited the ship at the Port of Tanjung Priok on Friday where they were both warmly welcomed by the ship’s crew who remained onboard the ship.

“The visit of the HMCS Calgary to Jakarta is a concrete demonstration of Canada’s growing partnership with Indonesia, and our joint commitment to peace, security, sustainability, and prosperity at home and abroad,” said Ambassador MacKay.  

“HMCS Calgary is very glad to have the opportunity to work with our Indonesian partners as we sail through the Indo-Pacific on Operation PROJECTION. Maintaining interoperability between our nations is important to ensuring regional peace and maritime security,” said Commander Mark O’Donohue, Commanding Officer HMCS Calgary.

HMCS Calgary has been deployed since February. On Operation PROJECTION they have so far visited Brunei, Vietnam, and Singapore and in the spring they travelled to Middle Eastern waters for the counter terrorism mission Operation ARTEMIS where they conducted maritime interdiction and security operations with the 34-nation coalition Combined Maritime Forces and Canadian-led Combined Task Force 150.

On Operation ARTEMIS, HMCS Calgary was incredibly successful and broke the record for largest heroin seizure, most amount of seizures, and most amount of illicit narcotics seized by any ship on a rotation in the history of the deployment. With the ending of Operation ARTEMIS, the ship is again on Operation PROJECTION.

HMCS Calgary’s deployment on Operation PROJECTION is a demonstration of Canada’s commitment to global peace and security and an opportunity to build ties and improve interoperability with partner nations. After Australia, the ship is scheduled to visit New Zealand and Fiji before returning to Canada in September//Release-VOI