USS Protector

USS Protector may refer to the following ships:

USS Protector was a Continental Navy frigate captured by the British in May 1781.^[1]
USS Protector (1798) was a full-rigged ship.^[2]
USS Protector was the planned name for the monitor USS Dictator; name changed while the ship was still on the stocks
USS Protector (ARS-14) was commissioned 28 December 1943; performed salvage and diving operations during much of her career; decommissioned on 15 May 1946
USS Protector (YAGR-11) was laid down as the Liberty ship SS Warren P. Marks; commissioned as the Protector 20 February 1957; operated off the United States Eastern Seaboard until her decommissioning 28 July 1965

^ "The Continental Navy". founderspatriots.org. Retrieved 20 September 2021.^{[unreliable source?]}
^ "American ship 'Protector' (1798)". Threedecks. Retrieved 16 January 2022.