Protector

Official Number
none

The Protector was a barque built at Workington by Thomas Peile in 1828. Her first voyage was from Liverpool to Bombay, returning to Gravesend. She later made a voyage to Calcutta, and in the 1830's went into the trade to Australia.

The Protector, Capt.Bragg, left London with goods and passengers on the 28th November 1832, and arrived at Hobart Town on the 1st March 1833. On the 14th January 1835, the barque Protector sailed from Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, carrying a cargo which included 415 hides, 781 bullock horns, 553 bales of wool, forty-five tons of bark, 300 possum skins, 2,175 kangaroo skins, 279 sealskins, nine tons of whalebone, ninety-seven tons of whale oil, and four cases of oil paintings by the distinguished artist John Glover, bound for exhibition in London.

In 1840 the Protector was registered at Workington and was owned by Daniel Bragg & others, her master being Capt.Robert Edgar.

The Protector was wrecked in the Bay of Baynet, Haiti, in December 1854. She was bound from Trinidad for Aux Cayes, and all the crew were saved.

Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Protector
1828
 274
 
 
 
3
 
 
 

Sources :

  1. "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985).
  2. First voyage reported in the Liverpool Mercury, Friday, 19th September, 1828, and return in the Morning Chronicle, Thursday, 15th October, 1829.
  3. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday, 23rd March 1833 (citing from the Hobart Town Courier, 1st March 1833).
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1834-5: Protector, barque, 274 tons, built Workington in 1828,  coppered 1835, master and owner Capt.D.Bragg, voyage London - Van Diemen's Land.
  5. Launceston Advertiser, 15th January 1835 (cited in a Sothebys catalogue).
  6. A List Of The Cumberland Shipping, Corrected To February 1840, by William Sawyers, Comptroller Of Her Majesty's Customs At The Port Of Whitehaven.
  7. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1852-3: Protector, barque, 274 tons, built Workington in 1828,  owned by Bragg & Co., registered at Workington, master W.Flanagan, voyage London - West Indies.
  8. Wreck reported in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper, Friday, 26th January, 1855 - report from Jacmel, Haiti, dated 28th December.