USS Nantucket (IX-18)

USS Ranger (1876)
USS Ranger at Algiers on 6 July 1913.
History
United States
NameRanger
Namesake
BuilderHarlan & Hollingsworth; engines by John Roach & Sons
Laid down1873
Renamed
  • Rockport (1917)
  • Nantucket (1918)
Reclassified
  • PG-23 (1920)
  • IX-18 (1921)
Commissioned
  • 27 Nov 1876—14 Sep 1891
  • 26 Aug 1892—26 Nov 1895
  • 1 Nov 1899—11 Jun 1903
  • 30 Mar 1905—21 Jun 1905
  • 10 Aug 1908—12 Nov 1908
Stricken30 November 1940
Fate
General characteristics
Class and typeAlert class gunboat
Displacement1,020
Length177 ft 4 in
Beam32 ft
Draft12 ft 9 in
Installed power1 × 560 ihp, 64 rpm compound back-acting steam engine
Propulsion1 × 12 ft diameter × 17.5 ft pitch propeller, auxiliary sails
Speed10 knots under steam
Complement138 officers and enlisted
Armament
  • 1 × 11" smoothbore
  • 2 × 9" smoothbore
  • 1 × 60-pounder
USS Ranger drying sails while moored off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, in December 1899.

USS Ranger, later USS Rockport and USS Nantucket (PG-23/IX-18), was a gunboat of the United States Navy. A screw steamer with full-rig auxiliary sail, Ranger was destined for a very long 65-year career, serving first as a U.S. Navy gunboat from 1876 to 1920, and later as a training ship with the Massachusetts Maritime Academy from 1909 to 1941.

The ship was finally scrapped in 1958, but her engine, which is the only one of its type known to be still in existence, was preserved and is on display at the American Merchant Marine Museum of Kings Point, New York.


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