USS Ranger 



A full rigged, iron vessel with auxiliary steam power built in 

 1876 by Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington. Ranger aw 

 service in the North Atlantic, Asiatic and Pacific waters with 12 

 years spent on surveying duty. In 1909 she was loaned to the 

 state of Masisachusetts as a nautical school. Her name was 



changed to Rockport in 1917 and the following year to 

 Nantucket. The Ranger's long career ended when she was towed 

 to a Baltimore scrap yard in 1959. 



Length: 199' 9" Displacement: 1,300 tons 



USS Ranger's Steam Launch conducting sounding operations off the west coast of Mexico (1899 - 1890) 



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