 
Dates: 1936 - 1970 HMS Protector (A146) was an Antarctic patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. She was laid down as a fast net layer by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow in August 1935, launched in August 1936 and commissioned on 30th December 1936. She served in the South Atlantic and in the Norwegian Campaign during World War II before being hit by an aerial torpedo in the Mediterranean. She was towed to Bombay and repaired before returning to Britain after the end of hostilities. After time in the fleet reserve as a training ship she was refitted as an Ice Patrol Ship in Devonport, with a rudimentary hangar and flight deck for two Westland Whirlwind helicopters installed. She made her first Antarctic patrol in the winter of 1955/56, serving the Falklands and the British Antarctic Survey Bases, and returned 13 more times before she was sold for scrapping at Inverkeithing on 10 February 1970. During her patrols she rescued the passengers and crew of the icebound MV Theron, including Sir Edmund Hillary and Dr Vivian Fuchs. She was replaced by HMS Endurance.
Memories of HMS Protector
HMS Protector in 1956Written by Arnold Hacking Contact this person >>  "Leaving Portsmouth for Gibraltar,clearing the Isle of Wight and running into a south wester,we had all had a good run the night before and were still full of woe.We rounded Ushant and somewhere in the Bay of Biscay we lost the steering engine,so it was hand steering until Gib,where we were at the end of mole,you felt you needed a pint or two by the time you had reached the Trocadero-then the long walk back,one step forward then two steps back and don't fallin the 'oggin. We arrived At Freetown and moored to the man-o-war buoy,then we moved to the most solubrious part of town-Kissey oil jetty with all its delights,flies,bum boats and more flies and the flies reatives came to see us too,we were looking forward to the long crossing to Rio.
The city and the surrounding islands are a stunning verdant green.The powers that be put us on the Praca Maura Jetty with the main sewer out fall
just about amidships,be that as it may,the native females were friendly,as I discovered on the early morning sick calls."
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"Looking for anyone who knew me HMS Tiger 1959/60, HMS Protector 1962/63, I was in Communication branch. "
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" The picture is of HMS Protector, A146, a Netlayer which used to do the Antarctic (down the ice), as HMS Endurance does now. I recall as an artificer apprentice having to go to sea on her on a day trip...out of Pompey...and we all had to sit in the net deck, eating our bag meals....and then honking up as it was rocking and rolling!! Ray. Last edited by Ray McWilliams"
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" Quoting: Ray McWilliams The picture is of HMS Protector, A146, a Netlayer which used to do the Antarctic (down the ice), as HMS Endurance does now. I recall as an artificer apprentice having to go to sea on her on a day trip...out of Pompey...and we all had to sit in the net deck, eating our ..."
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" 2336 and your all in bed already. It is allright for me as it only 0935 here and I am all alone with no work that I want to do. Have been just going through the photo files to try and find a photo of HMS Protector in the ice that I know I have. Never realized how many photos all together I have on ..."
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" Quoting: Arthur Rowsell 2336 and your all in bed already. It is allright for me as it only 0935 here and I am all alone with no work that I want to do. Have been just going through the photo files to try and find a photo of HMS Protector in the ice that I know I have. Never realized how many ..."
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