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![HMAS Protector in 1992](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/HMAS_Protector_%28USN%29.jpg/150px-HMAS_Protector_%28USN%29.jpg)
HMAS Protector was a Royal Australian Navy trials and submarine rescue ship. Protector was purchased by the Navy in 1990 and supported the Collins-class submarine trials from 1992. While Protector was decommissioned in 1998 she was sold to Defence Maritime Services, and remains in use as a training ship operating out of HMAS Creswell under the name Seahorse Horizon.