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Ranger 1913

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Alert		Roach, Chester	9.1873	18.9.1874	28.5.1875	submarine tender 1912
	Huron		Roach, Chester	1873	1874	15.11.1875	wrecked 24.11.1877
PG23	Ranger, 10.1917- Rockport, 2.1918- Nantucket	146	Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington	1873	1876	27.11.1876	auxiliary 7.1921

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1020
Displacement full, t
Length, m	53.3 pp
Breadth, m	9.75
Draught, m	3.89 mean
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HCRCR, 5 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	380
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 130
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 2 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 135/21 60pdr Parrott RML
Complement	148

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Project history

Classed as iron gunboats in the USN. Huron and Ranger were originally fore and aft rigged, but after the loss of Huron on the North Carolina coast, Ranger was given a barque-rig as Alert.

Modernizations

1880, Ranger: - 1 x 1 - 279/15, 2 x 1 - 229/15

1887, Alert: - 1 x 1 - 135/21; + 1 x 1 - 135/21 Parrott converted BL, 4 small guns

Naval service

Alert was converted to a submarine tender in 1911-12, while Ranger was a surveying ship 1880 to 1891 and from 1909 was mostly employed as a training ship for the State of Massachusetts. Ranger was loaned to the State of Massachusetts as TS for Massachusetts Nautical Training School in April 1909. She was twice renamed in 1917 and 1918, designated in 1920 as gunboat but in July 1921 reclassified as unclassified miscellaneous auxiliary and returned to the Massachusetts as a school ship. In November 1940 she was transferred to the Maritime Commission to be used as school ship at Merchant Marine Academy in New York, stricken that month, renamed Emery Rice in 1942 and finally scrapped in 1958.