• HMCS Preserver is the name of three ships of the Royal Canadian Navy: HMCS Preserver (1941), leadship of the Fairmile-support depot ships HMCS Preserver (AOR...
    1 KB (113 words) - 23:01, 25 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Preserver (1941)
    HMCS Preserver was a depot ship of the Coastal Forces of the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Commissioned in July 1942, Preserver supported Canadian...
    11 KB (986 words) - 01:49, 13 May 2024
  • navy ship HMCS Preserver (AOR 510), Protecteur-class supply ship HMCS Preserver (1941), leadship of the Fairmile-support depot ships USS Preserver (ARS-8)...
    584 bytes (107 words) - 11:26, 15 January 2020
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Shawinigan (K136)
    HMCS Shawinigan was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of...
    17 KB (1,328 words) - 11:57, 12 June 2025
  • Halifax–class HMCS Halifax — HX HMCS Vancouver — VR HMCS Ville de Québec — VC HMCS Toronto — TO HMCS Regina — RA HMCS Calgary — CY HMCS Montréal — ML HMCS Fredericton...
    26 KB (3,287 words) - 12:28, 2 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q050
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    11 KB (938 words) - 09:36, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q051
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    11 KB (924 words) - 08:48, 11 May 2025
  • Flower-class corvettes: HMCS Amherst, launched in 1940 HMCS Moncton, launched in 1941 HMCS Sackville, launched in 1941 Halifax-class frigates: HMCS Halifax, launched...
    8 KB (1,014 words) - 01:51, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coastal Forces of the Royal Canadian Navy
    RCN Fairmile flotillas were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver and HMCS Provider providing fresh water, fuel and medical services. Originally...
    29 KB (3,070 words) - 01:41, 30 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q057
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    11 KB (880 words) - 09:31, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q054
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    11 KB (895 words) - 09:37, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q055
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    11 KB (886 words) - 09:38, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Canadian Fairmile B motor launch
    the RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver and HMCS Provider providing fresh water, fuel and medical services. In February...
    32 KB (1,296 words) - 02:32, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q053
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    12 KB (1,034 words) - 09:35, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Provider (1942)
    HMCS Provider was a Fairmile depot ship constructed for the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Commissioned in December 1942, Provider served as...
    10 KB (913 words) - 01:53, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carley float
    finding the captain cannot swim, releases a nearby Carley float as a life preserver. The captain in his state can't swim to the boat, so Ensign Pulver jumps...
    9 KB (1,182 words) - 15:45, 27 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q052
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    10 KB (852 words) - 09:40, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for HMC ML Q056
    RCN Fairmile Fleets were accompanied by two "mother ships" HMCS Preserver (F94) and HMCS Provider (F100) providing fresh water, fuel and medical services...
    11 KB (917 words) - 09:38, 9 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Alhena
    USS Alhena (category 1941 ships)
    June 1940 with launch on 18 January 1941 sponsored by Mrs. William Sanford Lewis. The ship was delivered on 29 May 1941 and registered with official number...
    30 KB (3,569 words) - 20:48, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rouille (ship)
    Rouille (ship) (redirect from HMCS Rouille)
    The Rouille (later HMCS Rouille) was a Canadian fireboat. She was a steam-powered vessel, built in Collingwood, Ontario on October 26, 1929. She served...
    3 KB (189 words) - 21:40, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Gar
    commissioned for the United States Navy just prior to the country's 7 December 1941 entry into World War II. These submarines were a slightly improved version...
    16 KB (1,951 words) - 20:00, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese gunboat Fushimi (1939)
    to April 1941, to patrols of the middle Yangtze as far as Hankou. However, she returned to Japan in July for repairs, and from 30 October 1941, was based...
    6 KB (555 words) - 16:49, 8 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Italian destroyer Insidioso
    Reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929, she was stricken in 1938. Reinstated in 1941, she was captured by Nazi German forces in 1943 during World War II. She...
    18 KB (1,617 words) - 10:06, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for French destroyer Mogador
    USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof Bay, USS Piedmont, USS Potawatomi, USS Preserver, USS Saginaw Bay, USS Talbot, USS Walter C. Wann, USS YMS-238, USS Young...
    11 KB (1,260 words) - 17:15, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for German battleship Tirpitz
    was launched two and a half years later. Work was completed in February 1941, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Like her sister ship, Bismarck...
    51 KB (6,247 words) - 23:50, 10 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Piedmont
    by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Inc., in Tampa, Florida, on 1 December 1941; launched 7 December 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Elsa Kauffman; and, commissioned...
    19 KB (2,611 words) - 23:11, 16 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Talbot (DD-114)
    1939, she served with the Battle Force and the Submarine Force. In 1940 and 1941, the destroyer was based at San Diego. The day after the Japanese attack...
    16 KB (2,076 words) - 23:34, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese submarine I-38
    Sea before she was sunk in November 1944. I-38 was laid down on 19 June 1941 in the Sasebo Navy Yard at Sasebo, Japan, with the name Submarine No. 151...
    32 KB (4,106 words) - 17:50, 14 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for USS Aries (AK-51)
    the Maritime Commission to the US Navy on 22 September 1941. Renamed Manomet on 15 October 1941 and designated AG-37, the freighter was prepared for naval...
    9 KB (1,059 words) - 12:00, 31 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS Abner Read (DD-526)
    attack off Leyte on 1 November 1944. Abner Read was laid down on 30 October 1941 at San Francisco, California, by Bethlehem Steel and launched on 18 August...
    14 KB (1,609 words) - 22:07, 22 December 2024