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PROTECTOR netlayer (1936)


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Protector 1937

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Protector 1948- A146 1672 Yarrow, Scotstoun 8.1935 20.8.1936 12.1936 BU 1970


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2820

Displacement full, t3610
Length, m

103.0

Breadth, m

16.2

Draught, m

4.19 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

9000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

oil 707

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk V, nets

Complement190


Standard scale images


<i>Protector </i>1955
Protector 1955
<i>Protector </i>1940
Protector 1940
<i>Protector </i>1963
Protector 1963


Graphics


<i>Protector</i> 1937
Protector 1937


Project history

Faster version of Guardian. 102mm gun was single-purpose.

Modernizations

circa 1945: - 1 x 1 - 102/45; + 1 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 7 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, radar

1955: - nets; + 2 helicopters (Whirlwind).

Naval service

Protector was damaged by airborne torpedo 11.8.1941 and commissioned again only in 1945. She was used as Antarctic patrol ship in 1955 - 1968.

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