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USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship , Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to be designed and built from the keel up as a carrier.
The seventh USS Ranger (CV/CVA-61) was the third of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Although all four ships of the class were completed with angled decks , Ranger had the distinction of being the first US carrier built from the beginning as an angled-deck ship.
USS Ranger (SP-369), was a minesweeper built in 1882 and commissioned in 1918, and used in coastal defense until returned to her owner in 1919. Ranger (CC-5) was a Lexington -class battlecruiser renamed Constitution on 10 December 1917 and laid down in 1921, but canceled in 1923 and scrapped prior to completion.
On 20 October 1980, he became the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger. In April 1981 Airman Recruit Paul A. Trerice died in the Ranger ' s correctional custody unit. [11] [12] [13] Trerice's father brought a lawsuit against Pedersen, Ranger ' s executive officer and others but the case was dismissed. [14]
USS Ranger was a sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy, serving from 1777 to 1780 and the first to bear her name.Built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine, she is famed for the solo raiding campaign carried out by her first captain, John Paul Jones, during naval operations of the American Revolutionary War. [1]
The fifth USS Ranger (SP-237) was United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. Ranger as a civilian yacht sometime between 1910 and 1916, prior to her U.S. Navy service. Ranger was built as the steam-driven, steel- hulled yacht Thomas Slocum by Robert Jacob Shipyard at City Island, Bronx , New York, in 1910.
16 October 1952: Commander B. T. Simonds, the squadron’s commanding officer, was lost when his plane crashed into the water immediately following its launch from the USS Kearsarge. June–August 1958: The squadron was embarked on USS Ranger for her transit from Norfolk, via Cape Horn, to her new home port at Alameda.
VF-9 F4F-4 lands on USS Ranger in October 1942 VF-9 F6F-3s prepare to launch from USS Essex in 1944 VF-9 squadron-members and scoreboard in 1944. VF-9 established at NAS Norfolk on 1 March 1942 as part of the new Carrier Air Group 9 (CVG-9) which was to be deployed aboard the new carrier USS Essex. [2]