HMCS Preserver during New York fleet week 2009 |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMCS Preserver |
| Ordered: | early 1960s |
| Builder: | Saint John Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 17 October 1967 |
| Launched: | 29 May 1969 |
| Commissioned: | 7 August 1970[1] |
| Motto: | Le Coeur de la Flotte ("The Heart of the Fleet") |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Protecteur-class auxiliary vessel |
| Displacement: | 24,550 t (24,162 long tons) full load |
| Length: | 172 m (564 ft 4 in) |
| Beam: | 23 m (75 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Babcock and Wilcox boilers 1 × General Electric steam turbine engine |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 290 officers and crew (men and women) including air detachment when embarked |
| Armament: | • 2 × 20 mm Close-in weapon system (CIWS) • 6 × .50 calibre machine guns[2] |
| Aircraft carried: | 3 × CH-124 Sea King helicopters[2] |
HMCS Preserver is a Canadian Protecteur-class Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (replenishment oiler) of the Royal Canadian Navy commissioned in 1970.
Built by the Saint John Shipbuilding, Saint John, New Brunswick, it underwent a major refit in 2005, after the ship was plagued by electrical problems.
It is the second ship to bear the name. Commissioned 11 July 1942, the first HMCS Preserver served in World War II as a Fairmile motor launch base supply ship under the East Coast's 'Newfoundland Force'. It was paid off 6 November 1945.
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The ship has served Canada's fleet in domestic and international exercises in the 1980s and 1990s. It is currently serving in the Royal Canadian Navy Atlantic Fleet out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The ship will continue to operate until the Joint Support Ship Project has been completed.
November 2011, HMCS Preserver crashed into the floating dry-dock at the Irving-owned shipyard, while it was in Halifax harbor.