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The Ranger - Piscataqua-built

"The eighteen-gun sloop of war Ranger, launched from the Langdon's -- now Badger's Island -- shipyard on May 10, 1777, was the second Continental warship built by Piscataqua shipwrights, and certainly the most famous." -- from John Paul Jones and the Ranger, edited by Joseph G. Sawtelle, Portsmouth Marine Society Volume 20, recently reprinted in paperback.

Portsmouth Marine Society publications are produced by and available at Peter E. Randall Publisher.