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PROTECTOR steel colonial cruiser (1884)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Protector (South Australia till 1901)     Armstrong Mitchell, Walker, UK 11/1882 27.12.1883 6.1884 tender 9.1913


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

920

Displacement full, t 
Length, m

55.0 pp 57.3 oa

Breadth, m

9.14

Draught, m

3.81

No of shafts

2

Machinery2 VCE, cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 203/26 BL Mk VII, 5 x 1 - 152/31 BL Mk V, 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 5 x 1 - 11.4/94

Complement90


Standard scale images


<i>Protector</i> 1885
Protector 1885


Project history

Although referred to as a cruiser this Armstrong-built vessel resembled a very large flatiron gunboat.

Modernizations

1914: + 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk I/II/III

Naval service

She had an active career including participation in the suppression of the Boxer uprising in China. In 1913 Protector became a tender, relegated to harbour service in 1921 and renamed Cerberus 1.4.1921. Ship was sold 10.9.1924 as Protector, resold in 1931 as Sydney and sunk in collision off Gladstone while on loan to US Army in July 1943. Her hulk was still visible off Heron Island, Queensland in 1978.