Seven ships of the
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Royal Navy
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have been called HMS ''Protector'':
* , a 44-gun
fifth rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower.
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listed in 1749 that served in India and was wrecked on 1 January 1776 by a cyclone near
Pondicherry
Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...
.
* ''Protector'', a fireship in service in 1758.
* , a 178-ton, 12-gun
brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the latter part ...
launched on 1 February 1805. Converted to a
survey ship
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in 1817, she was sold for breaking up in 1833.
* ''Protector'', a laid down at Portsmouth in 1861 and cancelled on 12 December 1863.
* , a
net layer launched in 1936 and converted to an Antarctic patrol ship in 1955. Sold in 1970 for breaking up.
* , a patrol vessel launched as the commercial vessel ''Seaforth Saga'' in 1975, purchased by the Royal Navy in 1983 and sold in 1987.
* , the Antarctic patrol ship (ex-MV ''Polarbjørn''); chartered in 2011 and purchased in 2013 as a replacement for .
See also
* was launched at
Rotherhithe
Rotherhithe () is a district of south-east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, as well as the Isle of D ...
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 Sou ...
as a warship to deter pirates and the French Company in Indian waters. A monsoon wrecked her in 1761 while she lay at anchor in Pondicherry Roads.
* , ships of the Royal Australian Navy
* , a former naval base of the Royal Canadian Navy
* , a ship of the Royal Canadian Navy
* , a cutter of the UK Border Force
References
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Royal Navy ship names