Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 have borne the name HMS Ranger

• HMS Ranger was a 24-gun sixth rate, previously the French privateer
  Privateer
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   Deux Couronnes. She was captured in 1747 by HMS Gloucester
  HMS Gloucester (1745)
  HMS Gloucester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the dimensions specified in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 23 May 1745....
  
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• HMS Ranger was an 8-gun sloop
  Sloop-of-war
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   launched in 1752 and sold in 1783.
• HMS Ranger was a cutter purchased in 1779. She was renamed HMS Pigmy in 1781 and converted into a sloop. She was sold in 1784.
• HMS Ranger was a 14-gun cutter purchased in 1787, which the French captured in 1794. The British recaptured her in 1797 and renamed her HMS Venturer. She was sold in 1803.
• HMS Ranger was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794. She was captured and burnt by the French in 1805.
• HMS Ranger was a 12-gun cutter, formerly the Revenue cutter Rose, purchased in 1797. She was discarded in 1802.
• HMS Ranger was a 16-gun cutter launched in 1806 and purchased by the Navy. She was renamed HMS Pigmy later in 1806 and was lost in 1814.
• HMS Ranger was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1807 and broken up in 1814.
• HMS Ranger was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1820 and sold in 1832.
• HMS Ranger was an 8-gun packet brig launched in 1835, hulked in 1860 and sold in 1867.
• HMS Ranger was a Philomel class wood screw gunboat
  Gunboat
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  , launched in 1859 and sold in 1869.
• HMS Ranger was an Algerine class
  Algerine class gunboat
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   composite screw gunboat launched in 1880. She was sold as a salvage vessel in 1892, and hired between 1914 and 1919 as an ammunition hulk. She was broken up in 1947.
• HMS Ranger was a Sunfish class
  Sunfish class destroyer
  Three Sunfish-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy. , and were all built by the Hebburn-on-Tyne shipyard of Hawthorn Leslie. Ordered under the 1893-94 Programme, the contract was placed on 7 February 1894. All three "turtle-back" destroyers were laid down in 1894, launched in 1895 and...
  
   destroyer
  Destroyer
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   launched in 1895 and sold in 1920.
• HMS Ranger was to have been a C class
  C class destroyer (1943)
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   destroyer. She was renamed HMS Caesar in 1942 before being launched in 1944.
• HMS Ranger
  HMS Ranger (P293)
  HMS Ranger is an Archer-class patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy, based in HMNB Portsmouth. She is affiliated to Sussex and Brighton Universities' University Royal Naval Unit , which has its offices at the University of Sussex, Brighton...
  
   is an Archer class
  Archer class patrol vessel
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   patrol vessel, launched in 1986, completed in 1988, and currently in service.

In addition to these ships, a sloop named Ranger was temporarily hired in 1718 to take part in the successful hunt for the notorious pirate Blackbeard, but does not appear to have ever formally been a part of the Navy.

In fiction

A fictitious Polaris

UGM-27 Polaris

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 Resolution class submarine

Resolution class submarine

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 captured in the James Bond

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 film "The Spy Who Loved Me

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" was also named HMS Ranger.