Apr 4
HMCS PRESERVER
Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 in ---03-Fairmile Depot Ships
Served primarily as a Fairmile base supply during WW2 and was based at various Newfoundland ports.
Built by Marine Industries Ltd. , Sorel, Quebec, for $756,470.
Commissioned December 1, 1942. Length: 78.0 m, Beam: 13.1 m, Speed: 9 knots.
Eng. : 2 Fairbanks Morse 1150 H.P.
Sold January 4, 1946 for $275,000 by WAC to Marine Industries, Sorel, Quebec.
Resold in 1946 for $350,000 by MIL to Peruvian Navy and renamed Mariscal Castilla then Cabo Blanco.
Scrapped in 1961.
1942, HMCS Preserver. Origin unknown
Royal Canadian Navy collection (O-3006)
1943, Cornerbrook Nfld. Lieut. Rabbit and Jean-Paul Charest (coder). Base supply ship HMCS Preserver and three of the six Fairmiles of the 78th flotilla. Jean-Pierre Charest collection
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