A number of ships have been named ''Protector'':
* was a 26-gun sixth-rate of the Massachusetts Navy launched in 1779 at
Newburyport, Massachusetts
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, that and captured on 5 May 1781; the British
Royal Navy
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renamed her HMS ''Hussar'', and sold her in 1783.
*''Protector'' was a ship of 580 tons (
bm) launched in 1751 for the British
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
as a fast heavily armed warship to deter pirates and the French Company in Indian waters. In 1761 a monsoon wrecked her while she rode at anchor in
Pondicherry
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Roads
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There are many types of ...
.
[Hackman (2001), p.180.]
*''Protector'' (1826 ship) was a ship of 511 tons (bm) launched in 1826 at Chepstow. Between 1826 and 1831 she made two voyages to India for the British
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...
. She was lost in 1838 near Calcutta.
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* was a barque of 380 tons (bm) launched at Lincoln, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1827 that in 1830 transported colonists to the nascent ]Swan River Colony
The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia. This initial settlement place on the Swan River was soon named Perth, and it ...
.
See also
* HMAS ''Protector'', more than one ship of the Royal Australian Navy
*, more than one ship of the Royal Navy
*, more than one ship of the U.S. Navy
* ''Protector'' (fireboat), commissioned in 2016 in Long Beach, California, U.S.
* ''Protector'' (fireboat, British Columbia), in Victoria, Canada
* Protector class (disambiguation) Protector class may refer to:
* , Hong Kong Police patrol vessel
* , Armed Forces of Malta and Hong Kong Police patrol vessel based on the Damen Stan 2600 design
* , United States Coast Guard patrol vessels based on the Damen Stan 2600 design
* , ...
, including Protecteur
Citations and references
Citations
References
*Hackman, Rowan (2001) ''Ships of the East India Company''. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society).
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