U.S.S. Ranger (1876)

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U.S.S. Ranger (1876)
Hull Number: PG-23
Builder: Harlan & Hollingsworth[1]
Ordered: 10 February, 1873[2]
Laid down: 1873[3]
Launched: 10 May, 1876[4]
Commissioned: 27 November, 1876[5]
Decommissioned: 9 March, 1922[6]
Transferred: 11 April, 1940[7]
Fate: to Maritime Commission.
Broken up 1958
U.S.S. Ranger was one of three Alert Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Her name was changed to Rockport on 30 October, 1917 and then to Nantucket on 20 February, 1918.

Service

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  7. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 78.
  8. Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.

Bibliography


Alert Class Gunboat
  Alert Ranger  
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