Protecteur class

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Protecteur class
HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509)
HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509)
Overview
Type Supply ship
units 2
Shipyard

Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John
MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon

period of service

1969 to 2016

Technical specifications
displacement

24,700 tons

length

172 meters (over all)

width

23 meters

Draft

10 meters

crew

365

drive

2 × Babcock and Wilcox boilers
1 × General Electric steam turbine 21000 shaft HP

speed

20 kn (37 km / h)

Range

7500 nm

Armament
Loading capacity

Heavy oil 14,950 t
kerosene 400 t
ammunition 1,250 t
other freight 1,048 t

The first Protecteur class consisted of two supply ships from the Royal Canadian Navy . The supply ships supplied the destroyers and frigates of the Canadian Navy and their partners with ammunition, fuel, food and spare parts during maneuvers. The ships had larger and better equipped medical stations than the smaller ships. The ships were stationed on the west coast of Canada, in British Columbia , at the navy base CFB Esquimalt and on the east coast on the CFB Halifax in Nova Scotia . With a length of 172 meters, they were the largest ships operated by the Canadian Forces Maritime Command at the time.

units

The Canadian Navy had two of these supply ships.

Identifier Surname Keel laying Launch Commissioning Decommissioning home port
AOR 509 HMCS Protecteur December 16, 1966 July 18, 1968 August 30, 1969 May 14, 2015 CFB Esquimalt
(Pacific Fleet)
AOR 510 HMCS Preserver 17th October 1967 May 29, 1969 July 30, 1970 October 21, 2016 CFB Halifax
(Atlantic Fleet)

The Protecteur took among others at the Altair operation part.

Successor ships

On October 19, 2011, the Canadian government announced the results of the bidding process for the construction of new military ships, including two new support ships (Joint Support Ship Project) with an option for a third. As part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy , a contract worth 14 billion Canadian dollars of which was Seaspan Marine Corporation in Vancouver ( British Columbia ) awarded. The new ships should be operational in 2017.

The two new supply ships with the same name largely correspond to the design of the German Berlin class .

gallery

  • HMCS Protecteur during a military exercise while refueling a US military ship.
  • HMCS Protecteur refueling the destroyer USS Fitzgerald .
  • HMCS Preserver off New York (2009).
  • HMCS Preserver in Port Everglades (2009).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , Vancouver Sun, October 20, 2011
  2. ^ Joint Support Ship Design Selected. Department of Defense of Canada , July 2, 2013, accessed November 26, 2013 .