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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Protector1-6.jpg) HMAS Protector in 1914
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| History | |
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 Australia | |
| Builder | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co, Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Laid down | 16 November 1882 |
| Launched | May 1884 |
| Commissioned | 19 June 1884 |
| Decommissioned | June 1924 (RAN naval service) |
| Recommissioned | July 1943 (US army service) |
| Out of service | July 1943 |
| Motto | Faith for Duty |
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| Fate | Scuttled as a breakwater at Heron Island, 1943. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Armstrong type F1 flat-iron gunboat |
| Displacement | 920 tons |
| Length | 180 ft (54.9 m) |
| Beam | 56 ft (17.1 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 compound surface condensing engines |
| Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
| Complement | 85 to 96 |
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HMCS (later HMAS)[1] Protector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending the local coastline against possible attacks in the aftermath of the 'Russian scare', of the 1870s.[2] She arrived in Adelaide in September 1884 and served in the Boxer Rebellion, World War I and World War II.
During July 1943, Protector was requisitioned for war service by the U.S. Army. On the way to New Guinea and off Gladstone, she was damaged in a collision with a tug and abandoned. The hull was taken to Heron Island off the Queensland coast and later sunk for use as a breakwater. Her rusting remains are still visible to this day.
- ^ His/Her Majesty's Colonial Ship, later His Majesty's Australian Ship
- ^ Cohen, Raymond (1979). Threat perception in international crisis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-08000-5. OCLC: 4983577.