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| USS Ranger | ||||
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157k | USS Enterprise (1877-1909), at left, and Ranger (1876-1940) Drawing by Fred S. Cozzens, published in "Our Navy -- Its Growth and Achievements", 1897 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 74563 |
Robert Hurst | |
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134k | c. 1899 Ranger is moored in mid-channel, at the far left. The Hospital Ship USS Solace, with white hull, and Collier USS Scindia, (later renamed Ajax) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1970 U.S. Navy photo NH 71719 |
Naval Historical Center | |
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349k | c. July 1899 Ranger moored to a buoy at Mare Island before she was recommissioned. Ship in the background is USS Brutus (AC 15) at Mare Island Cyanotype photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum |
Darryl Baker | |
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120k | Drying sails, while moored off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in December 1899. Torpedo boats in the right distance are USS Davis (Torpedo Boat No. 12) and USS Fox (Torpedo Boat No. 13) Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 59946 |
Robert Hurst | |
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236k | c. December 1899 At Mare Island buoy, looking north up the Napa River. Torpedo boats are in the background |
Jim Kurrasch, Battleship Iowa, Pacific Battleship Center | |
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743k | c. 1909 Oil painting of USS Ranger by T.G. Purvis, London, England There were two paintings made. One was commissioned by the ship's captain and the other was put up in a drawing for the crew. Samuel J. Miller won the drawing and later passed the painting on to James McGihon, his grandson |
The family of Samuel J. Miller, Lt. Commander, USCG via James R. McGihon |
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85k | 6 July 1913 Algiers, Algeria Photo from Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860 - 1905 |
Robert Hurst | |
| USS Nantucket (IX 18) | ||||
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402k | c. 1920s National Archives photo |
Robert Jensen | |
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352k | c. 1920 Boston Navy Yard Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones collection |
Boston Public Library | |
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414k | 29 April 1928 Boston Navy Yard Massachusetts nautical training ship Nantucket preparing for around the world trip at Charlestown Navy Yard Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones collection |
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388k | 28 May 1930 The training ship Nantucket departing the Charlestown Navy Yard on an around the world training cruise Press photo from the Boston Traveler newspaper |
David Wright | |
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327k | c. 1932 Boston Navy Yard Training ship Nantucket at Charlestown Navy Yard for a spring cleaning to get ready for trip around the world again this year Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones collection |
Boston Public Library | |
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76k | c. 1933 Nantucket with the Massachusetts Nautical School |
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships | |
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188k | c. 1935 Boston Navy Yard PE-19, USS Nantucket (IX-18) and USS Constitution (IX-21) Photo from the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection |
Mike Green | |
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148k | 18 January 1937 Ponta Delgada, Azores |
Carlos Manuel Estrela | |
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234k | c. 1938 Anchored off the Naval Fuel Depot, East Lamoine, ME From the collection of Raymond Strout |
Jonathan Eno | |
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340k | c. 1938 Departing Boston on school cruise |
David Wright | |
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263k | 2 May 1941 Schoolship Sails--The Nantucket, training ship of the Massachusetts Nautical School, leaving Boston Navy Yard today for the annual cruise. Powhatan (YT 128) is off her port quarter Photo from the 2 May 1941 edition of the Boston Traveler |
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233k | c. October 1941 The Massachusetts Nautical Schoolship Nantucket, with 110 cadets aboard, arriving st the Navy Yard after a four-month european cruise |
Tommy Trampp | |
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435k | 12 February 1958 Associated Press article |
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154k | 2 April 1958 Newspaper article |
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358k | Tommy Trampp | ||
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45k | Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, NY Steam engine from Emory Rice This engine has been designated a National Historic Engineering Landmark by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was cited as "a significant benchmark in the evolution of marine steam power plants." Merchant Marine Academy photo |
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| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CDR Henry Dehaven Manley, USN - USNA Class of 1860 | 27 November 1876 |
| 02 | CDR Robert Boyd, Jr., USN - USNA Class of 1860 | 12 April 1878 |
| 03 | CDR John Woodward "Jack" Philip, USN - USNA Class of 1861 | 8 July 1880 - 15 October 1881 |
| 04 | CDR Charles Edgar Clark, USN - USNA Class of 1864 Retired as Rear Admiral | 15 October 1881 |
| 05 | CDR George Cook Reiter, USN - USNA Class of 1865 Retired as Rear Admiral | 14 October 1889 |
| 06 | CDR George E. Wingate, USN | 6 November 1890 - 14 September 1891 |
| 07 | CDR Henry Ezra Nichols, USN - USNA Class of 1865 | 26 August 1892 |
| 08 | CDR Eugene Winslow Watson, USN - Retired as Admiral | 1 December 1894 |
| 09 | CDR Wells Laflin Field, Sr., USN - Retired as Rear Admiral | 1 November 1899 |
| 10 | CDR William Parker Potter, USN - Retired as Rear Admiral | 11 November 1901 |
| 11 | LTJG Alfred Hart Miles, USN | 1915 |
| 12 | LTJG Thalbert Nelson Alford, USN - USNA Class of 1909 Awarded the Navy Cross (1918) - CDR Alford was killed in an air crash piloting a Vought O2U Corsair over Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, 2 July 1928 | 1916 |
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