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Naval / patrol

HMCS Provider

IMO 5286192CanadaBuilt 1963

Operated by Royal Canadian Navy

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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 Provider

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HMCS Provider was a replenishment oiler and sole ship of her class of first the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces. She was the first dedicated auxiliary oiler replenishment ship commissioned for the Royal Canadian Navy in 1963, and the largest ship built in Canada to that date. Originally assigned to the East Coast, her open deck made her vulnerable and she was reassigned to the West coast. The ship was paid off in 1998, sold for scrap and broken up in Turkey in 2003.

Quoted from HMCS Provider (AOR 508) 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: 5286192
IMO check digit: Valid
MMSI

In context

How HMCS Provider 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 Provider was built in 1963, making it 63 years old. It is one of 270 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 1,002 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 16 vessels to Davie Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 5,311 GT, delivered between 1950 and 1986. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 168.0 m overall, HMCS Provider is 81.5 m longer than the 86.5 m median for naval / patrols on record, with a beam of 76.0 m and a draft of 30.0 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5286192 this registry holds 13 other vessels, whose median build year is 1951 and which range from 1937 to 1963. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1963.

Its IMO number, 5286192, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 2×6 + 8×5 + 6×4 + 1×3 + 9×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.