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In 1975 Lightship Ambrose, the Nantucket's sister ship, was renamed Lightship Nantucket II and the two ships spelled one another, relieving each other approximately every 21 days. At 2:30 a.m. on 20 December 1983 the Lightship 613 relieved Lightship 612 until 8:00 a.m. when she was relieved by a Large Navigational Buoy , making Lightship 613 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Nantucket is an amazing island if you like to bike,” Gailliot says. "You can spend 48 hours on Nantucket without ever having to rent a car. The town spent the last decade on bike paths that ...
^A. Name assigned retroactively in 1938. During her years in service, this ship was referred to exclusively by her station name.; ^ B. Name/hull number assigned between 1867–70. Previously, she was referred to exclusively by her station name.; ^ C. LV-12 was assigned to two ships. From circa 1867 to 1871, LV-12 was the former Guthrie and LV-22 was an unnamed Fifth District relief vessel. In ...
His philanthropy has been spread across Washington — with Rubenstein ponying up $7.5 million to repair the Washington Monument in 2012 following an earthquake, giving $50 million next year to ...
After being assigned in 1979 to Nantucket Shoals the lightship alternated with her sister ship, the Lightship WLV-612, relieving each other approximately every 21 days as the Nantucket lightship. The WLV-613 was also the last lightship to mark the Nantucket channel on 20 December 1983. She was decommissioned and retired in 1983.
According to the Nantucket Current (@nantucketcurrent), the beached shark was discovered on Nantucket's Low Beach by Liza Phillips, who was visiting from California with her family and friends.At ...