Ranger

Captured

Continental Navy and state navies, then Royal Navy

Type	Sloop
Guns	18
War	American War of Independence

Service

1777–1780	Ranger	Americans
from 1780	Halifax Captured at Charleston	Britain

Sloop of war built at Kittery, Maine, and given to John Paul Jones, who carried the news of Saratoga to France in her. She received the first salute paid to the American flag by a foreign navy, at Quiberon Bay in 1778, and took HMS Drake in the North Channel. Captured at the fall of Charleston in May 1780 and taken into the Royal Navy as Halifax.

Photo #: 80-G-K-21225 (color) "First Recognition of the American Flag by a Foreign Government", 14 February 1778 Painting in oils by Edward Moran, 1898. It depicts the Continental Navy Ship Ranger, commanded by Captain John Paul Jones, receiving the salute of a French squadron under La Motte Picquet Photo: Edward Moran, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

18 × 6-pounder guns

Builder	James Hackett (shipbuilder), Badger's Island, Kittery, Maine
Launched	10 May 1777
Displacement	308 long tons (313 t)
Length	116 ft (35 m)
Complement	140 officers and enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

10 May 1777

Ranger and Drake (North Channel Naval Duel)

Survived

24 April 1778

John Paul Jones

Decommissioned

Captured

1781