USS Nantucket (IX-18)
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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.
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USS Ranger at Algiers on 6 July 1913. | |
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Name | Ranger |
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Builder | Harlan & Hollingsworth; engines by John Roach & Sons |
Laid down | 1873 |
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Reclassified |
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Commissioned |
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Stricken | 30 November 1940 |
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Class and type | Alert class gunboat |
Displacement | 1,020 |
Length | 177 ft 4 in |
Beam | 32 ft |
Draft | 12 ft 9 in |
Installed power | 1 × 560 ihp, 64 rpm compound back-acting steam engine |
Propulsion | 1 × 12 ft diameter × 17.5 ft pitch propeller, auxiliary sails |
Speed | 10 knots under steam |
Complement | 138 officers and enlisted |
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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.