USS Nantucket (IX-18)

USS Ranger at Algiers on 6 July 1913.
History
United States
Name	Ranger
Namesake	Ranger: One who wanders; a military scout Rockport: The towns of Rockport, Indiana, Rockport, Maine, Rockport, Massachusetts, Rockport, Missouri, and Rockport, Texas. Nantucket: Nantucket Island
Builder	Harlan & Hollingsworth; engines by John Roach & Sons
Laid down	1873
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
Stricken	30 November 1940
Fate	Transferred to Maritime Commission for final disposition 11 November 1940 Scrapped 1958
General characteristics
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
Armament	1 × 11" smoothbore 2 × 9" smoothbore 1 × 60-pounder

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.