Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ranger

His Majesty's hired armed vessels

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A series of hired armed vessels were hired by the Royal Navy;

  • A sloop named Ranger was temporarily hired in 1718 to take part in the successful hunt for the notorious pirate Blackbeard, but does not appear to have ever formally been a part of the Navy.
  • In July 1809 the Royal Navy hired ten open boats, all between 14 and 16 tons (bm), for less than a month to serve as pilot boats for the unfortunate Walcheren Campaign. One of these boats was named Ranger.[3]
  • Lastly, in January 1810, the RN hired the ship Ranger, of 16 guns, for several weeks.[3] This may have been the Ranger, of 326 tons (bm), Deanham, master.[4]

British Revenue vessel

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  • HMS Ranger was a revenue cutter operating off Great Yarmouth. In April 1821, under the command of Captain Sayer, she seized about 400 tubs of Geneva from a smuggling vessel, but was lost in a gale in October 1822 off Happisburgh, with no attempt being made by locals to rescue the crew. [5][6]

In fiction

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Citations

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  1. ^ "Suevic". Lloyd's List. column 3. 2 April 1907. p. 11. Retrieved 28 May 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Booth, Tony (2007). Admiralty Salvage in Peace and War 1906-2006. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781781596289.
  3. ^ a b Winfield (2008), p. 395.
  4. ^ Lloyd's Register (1810).
  5. ^ The Little Book of Norfolk, Neil Storey, p. 150.
  6. ^ Happishburgh, Losses at Sea

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