The Ranger was a warship that actively served the Continental Navy in 1777-1780. It was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Badger Island in Kittery, Maine. It carried out only one unsuccessful attack on the British mainland at Whitehaven. This unsuccessful attack resulted in Royal Navy ships being dispatched against him in the Irish Sea.

The Kingston ship is the Jamaican ship captured by the famous pirate Rackham. After capturing this ship and using it as a flagship, the famous pirate captured Ranger. The capture of these ships was considered an important step in the history of piracy. Pirate Rackham has succeeded in making his name immortal by capturing famous pirate ships. The capture of the Kingston ship is among the important steps it took to achieve its goal.

Road to Kingston Ship

The famous pirate Rackham continued his pirate career by looting small ships near the shore for a while. Then, he and his crew captured a small Jamaican ship, Kingston.

The pirate Rackham and his crew made the captured ship their flagship. Following the capture of the Kingston pirate ship, the famous pirate Rackham and his crew took several large ships off Bermuda and made several conquests in the West Indies.

In 1719, the famous pirate Rackham requested an interview from Governor Woodes Rogers for royal amnesty and commission. Pirate Rackham traveled to Nassau in the Bahamas, benefiting from a general amnesty for pirates. Governor Rogers was sent to the Bahamas to solve the problem of the pirates who stole by attacking and looting British ships in the Caribbean. The capture of Kingston, which was among the pirate ships, had also happened before this assignment.

Capture the Ship

In December, the merchant ship Kingston was captured. The Kingston ship had rich cargo. Believing that he will take advantage of this, the famous pirate Rackham and his team promised to achieve great success. Unfortunately, Kingston was put in sight of Port Royal, where angry merchants paid bounty hunters to chase the famous ship. This was unexpected.

Rackham and his ship, Kingston, decided to anchor off Cuba. They captured him in February 1719 while anchoring at Isla de Los Pinos. The ship's captain Rackham and his crew were on land. They all hid in the forest. So they managed not to get caught and survive. But Kingston, known as the pirate ship, was captured. Along with the ship, the team's spoils were also confiscated.