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HMCS Protecteur

IMO 6900678CanadaBuilt 1969

Operated by Royal Canadian Navy

Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Robert Stirrup · Public domain · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About HMCS Protecteur

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HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509) was the lead ship of the Protecteur-class replenishment oilers in service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She was part of Maritime Forces Pacific (MARPAC), homeported at CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia. Built by Saint John Shipbuilding and Dry Docks in Saint John, New Brunswick, she was commissioned on 30 August 1969. She was the first Canadian naval unit to carry the name Protecteur; however, there have been several units, including a base, named HMCS Protector.
Mostly known for her humanitarian efforts, Protecteur had also served in times of war including Operation Friction and Operation Apollo in the Persian Gulf region, multi-national naval exercises, and as part of the INTERFET in East Timor. Operation Apollo was the largest deployment of the Royal Canadian Navy since the Korean War. In six months Protecteur logged over 50,000 nautical miles (93,000 km; 58,000 mi), delivering over 150,000 barrels (~20,000 t) of fuel and 390 pallets of dry goods to deployed coalition ships. Protecteur, as well as her sister ship Preserver, were scheduled to be paid off in 2017, however, damage due to an engine fire aboard the ship in 2014 forced Protecteur to be paid off prematurely. Protecteur was decommissioned at a farewell ceremony on 14 May 2015.

Quoted from HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 6900678
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI
Call sign
Flag state: Canada
Port of registry: —
Vessel class: Protecteur-class replenishment oiler
Status: in service

Construction

Type: Naval / patrol
Builder: Saint John Shipbuilding
Yard number
Launched: —
Year built: 1969
Designed to carry: —
Owner: —
Operator on record: Royal Canadian Navy

Measurements

Gross tonnage: —
Net tonnage: —
Displacement: —
Length overall: 171.9 m
Beam: 23.2 m
Draft: 10.1 m
Service speed: 20.0 kn

In context

How HMCS Protecteur compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Canada is the country of registry for 633 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (404 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,800 GT. Browse every ship flagged Canada.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 13 naval / patrols flying the Canada flag.

HMCS Protecteur was built in 1969, making it 57 years old. It is one of 814 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 992 GT. Across the whole of the 1960s the registry holds 4,074 vessels, median 844 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 3 vessels to Saint John Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 13,105 GT, delivered between 1969 and 1982. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 171.9 m overall, HMCS Protecteur is 85.4 m longer than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 23.2 m and a draft of 10.1 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 6900678 this registry holds 8 other vessels, whose median build year is 1969 and which range from 1968 to 1969. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1969.

Its IMO number, 6900678, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 6×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 0×4 + 6×3 + 7×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
Moby Ale	6900654	1969
Jian He	6900628	1969
Bonny	6900616	1969
Straat Algoa	6900410	1969

Ship	IMO	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage
HMCS Preserver	6918546	Canada	1970	—

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.

Written summaryQuoted from HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

PhotographBy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Robert Stirrup, reused under Public domain.

All naval / patrols Ships flagged Canada Built by Saint John Shipbuilding Royal Canadian Navy

HMCS Protecteur

About HMCS Protecteur

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Sister ships in the Protecteur-class replenishment oiler class

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