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RMS Olympic passes Nantucket Lightship 117 close aboard in early January 1934. She sank the lightship four months later. [2] LV-117 was a lightvessel of the United States Lighthouse Service. Launched in 1931, she operated as the Nantucket lightship south of Nantucket Shoals.
Light Vessel 117, serving at the Lightship Nantucket position from 1931, was rammed and sunk on 15 May 1934 by Olympic, a sister ship to Titanic, with loss of seven of the eleven crew aboard. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] The $300,956 cost of the replacement vessel, to be designated LV-112 , was paid for by the British Government in compensation for the ...
Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944 A Type IXC/40 U-boat sunk by USS Joyce off Nantucket: Unnamed crane barge 1 November 1963 A crane barge that foundered in Nantucket Sound
The location of the Nantucket Shoals lightship station at the southern edge of the shoals. The station named Nantucket or Nantucket Shoals was served by a number of lightvessels (also termed lightships) that marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island. The vessels, given numbers as their "name," had the station name painted ...
The officer, Lt. Howard E. Stittsworth of Wakefield, Kas., was ordered confined to his quarters at Luke field pending a review of the verdict by Maj. Gen. Ralph Cousins, commanding general of the western flying training command, by the judge advocate general in Washington, D.C., and by President Roosevelt. Lt.
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Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, about 30 miles (48 km) south of the Cape Cod peninsula. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government. Nantucket is the southeasternmost ...
Although launched as the Nobska, from 1928 to 1956 she was named the Nantucket. [7] [9] Since she was renamed Nobska in 1956, two other Steamship Authority vessels have had that name: the later Naushon, and the current Nantucket itself. She was considered elegant and, at the time of her launch, modern, "the queen of the Sounds."