title: Ranger (1786 ship)
text: # Ranger (1786 ship)
  
  Ranger was launched in 1774 in Virginia, possibly under another name. Between at least 1781 and 1786 she was the London transport Thames. Then from 1786 until 1794, she became the Hull-based whaler Ranger. She was wrecked in 1797.
  
  ## Career
  
  Unavailable issues and missing pages in issues available on line mean that Thames first appeared in Lloyd's Register in 1781.
  
  | Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1781 | J.Moody | Scott & Co. | New York–London London transport | LR |
  | 1782 | J.Moody A.M'Larty | Scott & Co. | London transport | LR |
  | 1784 | A.M'Iarty | Scott & Co. | London transport | LR |
  | 1786 | A.M'Iarty | Scott & Co. | London | LR; thorough repair 1785 |
  
  In 1786 new owners renamed Thames Ranger, and sailed her as a whaler in the Greenland whale fishery.
  
  | Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1786 | John Potts | Towers & Co. | Hull–Greenland | LR; thorough repair 1785 |
  | Year | Master | Where | Whales | Tuns blubber | Seals |
  | 1786 | Potts | Greenland | 6 (or 8) | 86.25 | 0 (or 149) |
  | 1787 | Potts | Greenland | 6 | 86.5 | 0 (or 59 + 2 "sea horses") |
  | 1788 | Potts | Greenland | 4 | 28 | 0 |
  | 1789 | Potts | Greenland | 1 (or 2) | 16 | 31 |
  | Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
  | 1790 | J.Potts | Captain & Co. Gilder & Co. | Hull–Greenland Hull–Baltic | LR; thorough repair 1785 & damages repaired 1790 |
  | 1791 | W.Chester J.Potts | Gilder & Co. | Hull–Baltic Hull–Greenland | LR; thorough repair 1785 & damages repaired 1790 |
  | 1792 | E.Hall J.Potts | Gilder & Co. | Petersburg–Hull | LR; thorough repair 1785 & damages repaired 1790 |
  | 1793 | Illegible M.Newham | Gilder & Co. | Hull–Greenland | LR; thorough repair 1785 & damages repaired 1790 |
  | Year | Master | Where | Whales | Tuns blubber | Seals |
  | 1791 | Potts | Greenland | | | |
  | 1792 | Potts | Greenland | 3 | 52.25 | 0 |
  | 1793 | | | 3 | 55.5 | 180 |
  | 1794 | Newham | Greenland | | |
  | Year | Master | Owner | Trade | Source & notes |
  | 1794 | M.Newham | Gilder & Co. | Hull–Greenland | LR; thorough repair 1785, damages repaired 1790, & good repair 1793 |
  
  ## Fate
  
  In January 1797 Lloyd's List reported that Ranger, Potts, master, had run aground at Whitby while coming from Shields. It was expected that she would be lost.
  
  Ranger was last listed in 1797 with data unchanged since 1794.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * 1 2 LR (1781), Seq.No.T29.
  * ↑ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 2892. 24 January 1797. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105233100.
  