The replenishment vessel Protecteur has been towed out of Esquimalt, the latest Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) vessel sent to be scrapped before a like-for-like replacement is in place.
The ship’s destination was initially south, to make a passage through the Panama Canal before the long haul north to be ‘dismantled’ in Nova Scotia, at the same location as the guided-missile destroyer HMCS Algonquin, also recently decommissioned.
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