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HMCS Provider (AOR 508)
Career
Ordered: 15 April, 1958
Laid down: 1 May, 1961
Launched: 5 July, 1962
Commissioned: 28 September, 1963
Fate: Scrapped - Turkey, 2003
General characteristics
Displacement: 7,300 tonnes light/22,000 tonnes full load
Length: 168 metres (551 ft)
Beam: 23.17 metres (76 ft)
Draught: 9.5 metres (31 ft)
Propulsion: Double reduction geared turbines, 2 water boilers single shaft @ 21,000 shp
Speed: 21 knots
Complement: 142 (11 officers, 131 enlisted) - 166
Armament: helo launched Makr 46 Mod 5 torpedoes
Aircraft: 3 Sikorsky Aircraft CH124A Sea King helicopters stored in aft deck hangar
Motto: "Ready to Serve"

HMCS Provider was a Canadian Provider-class replenishment oiler. It was the first dedicated Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment ship commissioned for the Royal Canadian Navy in 1963. It was built by Davie Shipbuilding and Repairing Company Limited of Lauzon, Quebec.

Originally assigned to the East coast, its open deck made her vulnerable and it 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.

Fairmile depot ship

HMCS Provider was also the name of one of two Fairmile depot ships commissioned by Canada in 1942, serving primarily in the Atlantic (North and South) during World War II.

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