A number of ships have been named Protector:
Protector was a 26-gun sixth-rate of the Massachusetts Navy launched in 1779 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, that HMS Roebuck and HMS Medea captured on 5 May 1781; the British Royal Navy renamed her HMS Hussar, and sold her in 1783.
Protector was a ship of 580 tons (bm) launched in 1751 for the British East India Company as a fast heavily armed warship to deter pirates and the French Company in Indian waters. In 1761 a monsoon wrecked her while she rode at anchor in Pondicherry Roads.
Protector was a ship of 511 tons (bm) launched in 1826 at Chepstow. She was lost in 1838 near Calcutta.
Protector (1827 ship) was a barque of 380 tons (bm) launched at Lincoln, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1827 and that in 1830 transported colonists to the nascent Swan River Colony.
