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From: "Mike" <>
Subject: [Mar] RANGER, Cutter
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 08:08:42 +0200


Hi everyone, I hope 2004 brings you all you would wish for.

I am looking for details of a ship named RANGER, unfortunately a fairly common name.
She served in Port Phillip (Melbourne) during the late 1830s and early 1840s.
Her Master was John Mansel Scott in 1839.
She was described as being a Cutter, and appears to have had the duties of a Customs/Police vessel.

Now, would someone be able to track her origens for me? And her subsequent fate?

A Google search revealed Scott's name, and one other escapade where Ranger intecepted a stolen ship off Melbourne,
but that's about all I could find.


Thanks in anticipation,

Mike Scott-Williams
South Africa

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