HMCS Preserver (AOR 510)

HMCS Preserver during New York fleet week 2009
History
Canada
Name	Preserver
Ordered	early 1960s
Builder	Saint John Shipbuilding
Laid down	17 October 1967
Launched	29 May 1969
Commissioned	7 August 1970
Decommissioned	21 October 2016
Identification	Hull number: AOR 510 IMO number: 6918546 Callsign: CGRG
Motto	Le Coeur de la Flotte ("The Heart of the Fleet")
Honours and awards	Arabian Sea[1]
Fate	Scrapped
Badge	Azure a life preserver Argent cabled Or charged on the centre chief point with a maple leaf slipped Gules and within the ring a starburst also Argent.[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Protecteur-class replenishment oiler
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 & Wilcox boilers 1 × General Electric steam turbine engine
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	290 officers and crew including air detachment when embarked
Armament	2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 6 × M2HB .50 cal (12.7 mm) HMGs
Aircraft carried	3 × CH-124 Sea King helicopters
Aviation facilities	aft deck hangar and flight deck

HMCS Preserver was a Protecteur-class auxiliary oiler replenishment of the Royal Canadian Navy commissioned in 1970. Built at Saint John, New Brunswick, and launched in 1969, the vessel took part in several overseas deployments, including Operation Deliverance, which became better known as the Somalia Affair. The ship underwent a major refit in 2005, after she was plagued by electrical problems. With these difficulties unresolved, Preserver was withdrawn from sea-going service in 2014 and was paid off on 21 October 2016. The vessel was broken up for scrap at Sydney, Nova Scotia in 2017.