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Likewise, with its last five-and-a-half hours of service, the WLV-613 was the last lightship on Nantucket Shoals and the last lightship in service in the United States. The WLV-613 is currently owned by William and Kristen Golden, who also own the WLV-612.
In 1975 until 1983, the WLV-612 was reassigned as the Lightship Nantucket at Nantucket Shoals, a dangerous shoal 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Nantucket Island. From 1979 to 1983 the WLV-612 and the United States Lightship WLV-613 alternated at Nantucket Shoals as the Nantucket I and the Nantucket II , relieving each other approximately every ...
United States lightship Nantucket (LV-112) is a National Historic Landmark lightship that served at the Lightship Nantucket position. She was the last serving lightship and at time of its application as a landmark, one of only two capable of moving under their own power. [2] She served as the lightship for such notable vessels as the liners ...
The first US lightship was put in place off of Willoughby Spit in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, in 1820. [1] Lightships remained in service in the United States until March 29, 1985, when the last ship, the Nantucket I, was decommissioned. [2]
The WLV-613 was also the last lightship to mark the Nantucket channel on 20 December 1983. She was decommissioned and retired in 1983. [3] WLV-613 was berthed at the Wareham Shipyard along Main Street in Wareham, Massachusetts from about 1990 until she was moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts on December 1, 2014. The vessel (now painted as ...
A steam-powered ocean liner that collided with Florida south of Nantucket Island: Stephano United Kingdom: 8 October 1916 Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944
Lightship Nantucket was a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least 11 individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including: LV-58 (1894–1896) LV-85 (1907–1923), under US Navy control 1917–1919 [1] LV-117 (1930–1934) LV-112 (for periods during 1936–1975), now preserved in Boston ...
Massachusetts Lightship Nantucket LV112: U.S. Lighthouse Service 1789–1939: Lightship Nantucket LV112: Yes 89002464: December 20, 1989 Bristol Rhode Island Bristol Oyster Bar [4] U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1790–1915: Bristol Customshouse and Post Office: NRHP 72000015: May 31, 1972 Chatham Massachusetts Chatham Coast Guard Station