# Protector (ship)

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A number of ships have been named ***Protector***:

- [*Protector* (1779 frigate)](/source/Protector_(1779_frigate)) was a 26-gun sixth-rate of the Massachusetts Navy launched in 1779 at [Newburyport, Massachusetts](/source/Newburyport,_Massachusetts), that [HMS *Roebuck*](/source/HMS_Roebuck_(1774)) and [HMS *Medea*](/source/HMS_Medea_(1778)) captured on 5 May 1781; the British [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) renamed her HMS *Hussar*, and sold her in 1783.
- *Protector* was a ship of 580 tons ([bm](/source/Builder's_Old_Measurement)) launched in 1751 for the British [East India Company](/source/East_India_Company) 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](/source/Puducherry_(city)) [Roads](/source/Roadstead).[1]
- *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](/source/East_India_Company). She was lost in 1838 near Calcutta.[1]
- [*Protector* (1827 ship)](/source/Protector_(1827_ship)) 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](/source/Swan_River_Colony).

## See also

- [HMAS *Protector*](/source/HMAS_Protector), more than one ship of the Royal Australian Navy
- [HMS *Protector*](/source/HMS_Protector), more than one ship of the Royal Navy
- [USS *Protector*](/source/USS_Protector), more than one ship of the U.S. Navy
- [*Protector* (fireboat)](/source/Protector_(fireboat)), commissioned in 2016 in Long Beach, California, U.S.
- [*Protector* (fireboat, British Columbia)](/source/Protector_(fireboat,_British_Columbia)), in Victoria, Canada
- [Protector class (disambiguation)](/source/Protector_class_(disambiguation)), including Protecteur

## Citations

1. Hackman (2001), p.180.

## References

- Hackman, Rowan (2001) *Ships of the East India Company*. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). ISBN 0-905617-96-7

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