| Name: | PROTECTOR |
| Launched: | 10/04/1869 |
| Completed: | 07/1869 |
| Builder: | JD Burdis, North Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 89grt, 12nrt, 89.3 x 18.0 x 9.5ft |
| Engines: | L1cyl (34 x 48ins), 40nhp |
| Engines by: | RJ Marshall, South Shields |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 60526 |
| History: | |
| 29/07/1869 | James Dunn Burdis, North Shields; registered at North Shields |
| 1874 | Samuel Lawther, Belfast |
| 1880 | Registered at Belfast |
| by 1888 | T McCracken, Belfast |
| 11/05/1888 | Sank |
| Comments: | 11/05/1888: Left Belfast, for towing & struck floating wreckage |
| Abandoned & sank about 8 miles SW by W of Mull of Cantyre, North Channel | |
| Mull of Cantyre is now known as Mull of Kintyre | |
| Thanks to John Evans & David Asprey for the above details |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 12/04/1869