HMS Protector

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been called HMS Protector:


 * Protector, a 44 gun fifth rate listed in 1749 which served in India, and was wrecked on 1 January 1776 by a cyclone near Pondicherry.
 * Protector, a fireship in service in 1758.
 * Protector was a 178 ton 12-gun brig launched on 1 February 1805. Converted to a survey ship in 1817, she was sold for breaking up in 1833.
 * Protector, a Britomart-class gunboat laid down at Portsmouth in 1861 and cancelled on 12 December 1863.
 * HMS Protector (A146), a net layer launched in 1936, and converted to an Antarctic patrol ship in 1955. Sold in 1970 for breaking up.
 * HMS Protector (P244), a patrol vessel originally launched as the commercial vessel Seaforth Saga in 1975 and purchased by the Royal Navy in 1983 and sold in 1987.
 * HMS Protector (A173), the Antarctic patrol ship (ex-MV Polarbjørn); chartered (2011) then purchased (2013) as a replacement for HMS Endurance.