Protector, 1805
Type: Survey vessel (1817) ; late Gun Brig ; Armament 14
Launched : 1805 ; Disposal date or year : 30 Aug 1833
BM: 178 tons.
Notes:

May 1805 Sheerness, fitting

26 Nov 1805 - 12 Jan 1806 Expedition, under the orders of Commodore Sir Home Popham, to take the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, which involved many of the men working ashore as a part of a marine battalion.

4 Mar 1806 as a part of the squadron lying off the Cape of Good Hope captured the French 40-gun frigate Volontaire, added to the navy by the same name.

Circa 27 Mar 1811 Protector, Capt. G.C. McKenzie, detained the Spanish slave schooner Paloma, master Antonio Yelechy, ID No. 7653, was condemned by the Vice-Admiralty Court, at Sierra Leone, but is reported to be subject to an appeal pending in the High Court of Appeals for Prizes, but haven't found the result of the appeal to date.

Portsmouth 22 Nov 1812 departed with a convoy for Cork.

Portsmouth 6 Jun 1813 departed with convoy for Cork.

Plymouth 26 Jul 1813 arrived from Villa Nova and Gibraltar, with a convoy.

Plymouth 27 Jul 1813 arrived with a convoy of transports and merchant vessels from Gibraltar.

Plymouth 1 Jan 1814 departed for Ireland with a convoy of transports,.with the 1st Militia on board.

Cork 6 Jan 1814 arrived from Plymouth with a convoy of transports, having the First Somerset militia on board.

Falmouth 11 Mar 1814 arrived from Ireland, with a convoy.

Portsmouth 31 Mar 1814 arrived from Cork.

Portsmouth 4 Apr 1814 departed to Cork.

Cork 29 Aug 1814 Has arrived and departed again.

Cork 9 Sep 1814 arrived.

Cork 10 Sep 1814 arrived.

Cork 16 Sep 1814 departed for Loughswilly.

Portsmouth 16 Oct 1815 arrived from Cork.

Woolwich 6 Jan 1817 To be converted for use as a survey vessel.

Yarmouth 14 Oct 1822 Got on shore near Winterton in the gale.

Yarmouth 15 Oct 1822 The Nancy, of Weymouth, cut from her anchor under Corton yesterday, struck on Newcombe Sand, and unshipped her rudder, but it has been hung, and an anchor and cable put on board.

Deptford 3 Feb 1829 Has been paid off and re-commissioned.

1830 Survey vessel at Flamborough Head.

30 Aug 1833 offered for sale at Sheerness in a Dutch auction at �500, and sold at �435.