| 词条 | HMS Ranger (1806) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HMS Ranger was a mercantile vessel that the Royal Navy purchased on the stocks in May 1806. It registered her on 17 May but then renamed her Pigmy on 29 May. She underwent fitting at Portsmouth between 12 June and 26 September. (The fitting apparently included conversion to a brig-rig.){{sfnp|Winfield|2008|p=370}} Wreck: Lieutenant George Higginson commissioned Pigmy in 1807. He sailed her to the Pertuis d'Antioche under orders to observe the movements of a French squadron there. When he arrived in the evening of 4 March he discovered that {{HMS|Pomone|1805|6}} was already on station.{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=118}} Pigmy was short-handed, her master was in bed, ill, and Higginson was exhausted from having been on deck for several days. He requested that he be permitted to anchor, but was ordered to lay-to off the Île d'Oléron. At 3:30a.m. Pigmy grounded. Higginson came on deck and directed the attempts to get her off, but she rolled on her side and bilged. At daybreak a nearby French fort observed her and began to fire on her. The British were unable to escape and took to their boats, landing on shore where they were made prisoner.{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=118}} When Higginson was freed seven years later he underwent courtmartial for the loss of Pigmy. He was admonished to be more careful in the future. He had relied too much on the pilot, and had not come on deck after the watch had warned that shore lights suggested that she might be in danger.{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=118}} Citations and referencesCitationsReferences
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