HMCS PROVIDER (508)
HMCS PROVIDER
The History of HMCS PROVIDER
HMCS Provider was a Canadian Provider-class replenishment oiler. She was the first dedicated Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment ship commissioned for the Royal Canadian Navy in 1963. She was built by Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Company Limited of Lauzon, Quebec.
Originally assigned to the East coast, her open deck made her vulnerable and she was re-assigned to the West coast.
The ship was decommissioned in 1998 and towed by the tug Sirocco to Turkey in 2002 for use as a barge, prior to being scrapped the following year.
HMCS PROVIDER Statistical Data
- Pendant: 508
- Type: AOR
- Class: PROVIDER
- Displacement: 22,700 Fully Loaded tonnes
- Length: 551 ft
- Width: 76 ft
- Draught: 30 ft
- Speed: 20 kts
- Compliment: 11 Officers and 131 Crew
- Arms: None fitted.
- Builder: DAVIE SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIRING CO. LTD, LAUZON, QUE
- Keel Laid: 21-Jun-61
- Date Launched: 05-Jul-62
- Date Commissioned: 28-Sep-63
- Paid off: 24-Jun-98
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The Royal Canadian Navy replenishment oiler HMCS Provider (AOR 508) underway at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), during exercise "RIMPAC '86".
HMCS PROVIDER