ISBN: | 978-5-5116-1749-7 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMCS/HMASProtector was a large flat-iron gunboat commissioned and purchased by the South Australian government in 1884, for the purpose of defending the local coastline against possible attacks in the aftermath of the ‘Russian scare`, of 1870s. She arrived in Adelaide in September 1884 and subsequently served in the Boxer Rebellion, World War I and World War II.