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HMS Ranger (P293) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (181 words) |
 | HMS Ranger is an Archer-class patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy, based in HMNB Portsmouth. |
| HMS Ranger was built at Shoreham-by-Sea by Watercraft Ltd in 1987 and was originally allocated to the Forth Division of the Royal Naval Reserve for Junior Officer training. |
| In 1991 she went to Gibraltar with HMS Trumpeter to form the Gibraltar Squadron, and returned to the UK to become Sussex URNU's allocated P2000 in early 2004. |
| HMS Ranger (P293) at AllExperts (494 words) |
| There have been 15 different HMS Rangers over the past 300 years, from the sloop hired in 1718 by Lt Robert Maynard in order to capture and kill the legendary pirate Blackbeard, to the present P2000 allocated to Sussex URNU. |
| In fact, an additional battle honour (Sudan - 1884) was awarded to HMS Ranger from this campaign, but this was deleted in 1954, coincidentally the year in which she (the largest HMS Ranger to date) was finally broken up. |
| The current HMS Ranger was built at Shoreham-by-Sea by Watercraft Ltd in 1987 and was originally allocated to the Forth Division of the Royal Naval Reserve for Junior Officer training. |
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