VICTORIA -- Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg will return to Esquimalt, B.C. on Friday, ending a nearly five-month deployment that was mired in tragedy with the loss of a sailor this week. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Vice-Admiral Art McDonald, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, are expected to attend the ship's arrival, in what will be a muted ceremony compared to holiday homecomings of the past. The ship left Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt at the end of July, participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) off Hawaii before completing two maritime-security missions in the Asia-Pacific region. On its passage back home Monday, a 47-year-old crewmember was declared missing at sea off the coast of California.