Fire on HMCS Protecteur - A first hand account of the major fire on Canadian Navy ship Protecteur!

Our podcast is focused on warfighters from around the world, and we pride ourselves on being a outet for a wide range of topics and discussions. Part of our mission is to preserve the voices of warfighters and their accounts of major events, so this video will not disappoint!
My guest is Royal Canadian Navy Lieutenant Steve Oxley, who is the Operations Officer on HMCS Winnipeg -- and that means he ranks as third in command of that front-line surface combatant warship.
Our discussion focused on a major incident that occurred aboard HMCS Protecteur (AOR 509), a replenishment oiler that was part of the Royal Canadian Navy's Pacific Fleet.
The incident was a major engine room fire which occurred on 27 February 2014, when Protecteur was 340 nautical miles northeast of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
LT Oxley was a Sub-Lieutenant on HMCS Protecteur at the time, so he has kindly agreed to share his memories of that day.
There are some great perspectives in this episode -- you'll hear what happened, you'll hear about the emergency stations response, you'll hear about heroism, off-the-cuff ingenuity, leadership, allied support and so much more!
Our discussion references some U.S. Navy ships that were dispatched to help HMCS Protectuer during that incident, and they are: USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), USS Chosin (CG 65) and USNS Sioux (T-ATF 171). The chat also makes reference to AFFF, which stands for Aqueous Film Forming Foam.
HMCS Protecteur was decommissioned at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt on 14 May 2015.
Our thanks to LT Oxley for his kindness and time in sharing his memories so we can help preserve that history and acknowledge the bravery exhibited by everyone that was serving aboard HMCS Protecteur that day.
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[@bigbigmurphy]

Glad to hear the Canadian perspective on this incident. We were that helicopter detachment on USS Michael Murphy. We still have the signed letter from HMCS Protecteur encased in a frame, hanging in the P way. I still remembered getting that midnight phone call to come in to the squadron at 4am to prep the emergency det.

[@goboldwithjoeteyattariwala]

Thanks very much for watching and for sharing that your Det was the one on USS Michael Murphy! Thanks to you and your colleagues for all you did to respond to the emergency. I would be thrilled to speak with you if you'd allow me the honor. Kindly email me at goboldthepodcast at gmail dot com if you don't mind.

[@m1t2a1]

The ship is rolling more than the camera. That's cool.

[@goboldwithjoeteyattariwala]

Awesome that you noticed that. I thought it was cool too! 🙂

[@mioryderoncgnp1589]

A hunch of shit of a warship that was not mantained..