HMS Halifax (1780)

HMS Halifax (1780)

HMS "Halifax", was a British Royal Navy sloop.

USS "Ranger" was renamed HMS "Halifax" after the ship was captured along with USS "Providence" and USS "Boston" from the United States Navy on May 11, 1780, after the fall of Charleston, South Carolina during the American War of Independence. She was decommissioned the following year.

ee also

*Halifax, England


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