Ranger (1791 ship)

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History
Great Britain
NameRanger
Launched1791, New Providence[1]
Captured
  • 29 August 1797
  • 1805
General characteristics
Tons burthen
  • 1791: 105,[1] or 107[2] (bm)
  • 1796: 151, or 154,[2] or 160 (bm)
Sail plan
Complement
  • 1793: 4[2]
  • 1803: 23[2] or 24
Armament
  • 1793: 10 × 4-pounder guns[2]
  • 1794: 2 × 6-pounder guns
  • 1803: 14 × 4-pounder guns[2]
NotesBuilt of live oak and cedar

Ranger was launched in 1791 in New Providence and immediately came to Britain. She generally traded between Liverpool and New Providence. She underwent grounding in 1795 and in 1796 her owners had her repaired, lengthened, and converted from a brig to a ship. A French privateer captured her in August 1797 after a single-ship action. In a process that is currently obscure, Ranger returned to British ownership circa 1799. She then became a West Indiaman. From 1803 on she became a Liverpool-based slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She made one complete slave trading voyage. Then French privateers captured her after she had embarked slaves in West Africa but before she could deliver them to the West Indies.

Career[]

Ranger first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1791.[1]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1791 J.Walker Thomas Moss Liverpool–New Providence LR

After the outbreak of war with France, Captain John Walker acquired a letter of marque on 16 May 1793.[2] This was short lived. In 1794 Ranger had a new master who did not acquire a letter of marque, and a much reduced armament.

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1794 J.Walker
J.Turnbull 		Moss & Co. Liverpool–New Providence LR
1795 Turnbull
H.Jump 		Moss & Co. Liverpool–Bahamas LR

In November 1795 Lloyd's List reported that Ranger, Jump, master, had gone on shore at the Isle of Man. She was on her way from Liverpool to Lisbon.[3]

Year Master Owner Trade Source & notes
1796 H.Jump
J.Bell 		Moss & Co. Liverpool–Lisbon
London–San Domingo 		LR
1797 J.Bell Moss & Co. London–Caicos LR; lengthened & large repair 1796

Capture[]

Lloyd's List reported in December 1797 that on 25 August 1797 a French privateer had captured Ranger, from Liverpool and New Providence to the Caicos, and taken her into Cape Francois. Captain Bell was killed in the two-hour engagement before Ranger struck.[4]

In a process that is currently obscure, Ranger returned to British ownership circa 1799. She reappeared in the 1799 volume of Lloyd's Register.[5]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1799 J.M'Gee Tierney & Co. London–Martinique LR
1800 J.M'Gee
E.Redman 		Tierney & Co. London–Martinique LR
1801 E.Redman Phynn & Co. London–St Lucia LR
1802 E.Redman
J.Bruce 		Phynn & Co. London–St Lucia LR
1803 J.Bruce
T.Phillips 		Phynn & Co. London–St Lucia
Liverpool–Africa 		LR

New owners in Liverpool put Ranger into the slave trade.

1st slave voyage (1803–1804): Captain Thomas Phillips sailed from Liverpool on 28 April 1803. He acquired a letter of marque on 2 August 1803.[2] Ranger acquired her slaves at Calabar. On 13 October she arrived at Trinidad with 189 slaves. Phillips died on the voyage,[6] probably before Ranger arrived at Trinidad. She left Trinidad for Liverpool on 1 December and arrived back there on 27 January 1804 with Elliot Arthy, master. She had left Liverpool wit 24 crew members and had suffered no crew deaths on her voyage.[7]

2nd slave voyage (1804–loss): Captain Archibald Holmes sailed from Liverpool on 29 April 1804.[8]

Loss[]

In June 1805 Lloyd's List reported that two privateers had captured Ranger, Holmes, master, to the windward of Barbados. The privateers sent Ranger into Guadeloupe.[9]

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b c LR (1791), Seq.No.R246.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Letter of Marque, p.83 – Retrieved 25 July 2017" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2769. 17 November 1795. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  4. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2972. 1 December 1797. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  5. ^ LR (1799), Seq.No.R256.
  6. ^ Behrendt (1990), p. 105, Table 6.
  7. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Ranger voyage #83285.
  8. ^ Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Ranger voyage #83287.
  9. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4227. 21 June 1805. Retrieved 19 January 2022.

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