HALIFAX: Leading Seaman Kelvin Henebury kisses his daughter Megan as he prepares to depart on the HMCS Preserver on Oct. 17, 2001. The frigate HMCS Charlottetown and the destroyer HMCS Iroquois joined the HMCS Preserver in heading to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea for duty in the US-led military campaign against terrorism. —AP/PTI