can he give his stress to ANY ship at range one? "At the start of the End phase, you may assign 1 of your stress tokens to another ship at Range 1."

Looks like it. Being an S&V that ability works very well.

Yup, any ship, yours or theirs.

I never really thought the 'yours' option was much use until this week when I double stressed him and realised I could clear both by passing one onto one of my other ships to clear.

cool. yeah thats what i thought but just wanted to check..

Yup definitely. He's great alongside a couple Zs, so you can always open your dial until you get in Range of enemies and can do it to them. Still leaves you room for a nicely kitted ace or large ship or a couple TLTs.