NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Protector (South Australia, 1901- RAN)		457	Armstrong Mitchell, Walker	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
Machinery	2 VC, 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 - 152/26 BL Mk VI, 4 x 1 - 47/40 3pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 5 x 1 - 11.4/94
Complement	90

Standard scale images

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.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.