William Badger (shipbuilder)
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William Badger was a master shipbuilder operating in Kittery, Maine, United States who was rumored to have built 100 vessels.
c. 1805 portrait by James Frothingham
USS Ranger (1777)
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USS Ranger was a 18-gun sloop of 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 f
USS Ranger receiving the salute of the French fleet at Quiberon Bay, France, 14 February 1778.
Ranger (right) at the North Channel Naval Duel