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LV-117 was a lightvessel of the United States Lighthouse Service. Launched in 1931, she operated as the Nantucket lightship south of Nantucket Shoals . Moored south of Nantucket Island , Massachusetts , the lightship was at the western part of the transatlantic shipping lane and the first lightship encountered by westbound liners approaching ...
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 ...
Several ships have been assigned to the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket. It was common for a lightship to be reassigned and then have the new station name painted on the hull. The Nantucket station was a significant US lightship station for transatlantic voyages. Established in 1854, the station marked the ...
A 17-year-old Nantucket teenager is dead after a crash on the island, according to police. Nantucket Police said in a press release around 10:30 p.m. Saturday that they received several 911 calls ...
The Lightship Ambrose (WLV-613) was commissioned in 1952 and became the last lightship to mark the Ambrose Channel when she was replaced by a Texas Tower lightstation on 24 August 1967. She was reassigned as a relief ship on the Massachusetts coastline from 1967 to 1975. After being renamed Relief (1967 to 1980) and then Nantucket II (1980 to ...
Frying Pan Shoal (1860) Han and Chickens (1867 – 1877) Relief (1877 – 1879) Sunk by the Confederate States Navy in 1860 at Cape Fear River. LV-8 was later salvaged by USLHT Iris in 1866, and repaired. It is unknown what became of this ship. [B] [11] Lightship LV-9.
The man who died in Nantucket's fatal house fire Tuesday night was 62-year-old Peter Gurley, a report from the state Department of Fire Services said Thursday.. According to the original press ...
A ship that was stranded on High Pines, a section of Duxbury beach off the Gurnet. "In March 1792, the ship Columbia, of three hundred tons, of Portland, Capt. Isaac Chauncy, was stranded on the beach at the High Pines, and fourteen men lost, and two, the second mate and a boy, were saved." [8] Columbia United States: 26 November 1898