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Detail from NOAA nautical chart 12300 showing the Nantucket Shoals in relation to Nantucket Island.. Nantucket Shoals is an area of dangerously shallow water in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, eastward for 23 miles (37 km) and southeastward for 40 miles (64 km); in places water depth can be as shallow as 3 feet (0.91 m). [1]
Nantucket Shoals (1975 – 1983) Sold to private owner, operational and available for charter. She is the last lightship to be decommissioned by the coast guard. [67] Lightship WLV-613: 1952: 1983: Ambrose Channel (1952 – 1967) Relief (1967 – 1979) Nantucket Shoals (1979 – 1983) Sold to private owner.
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 ...
LV-112 was built to replace LV-117 which had been sunk in a collision while assigned to Nantucket Shoals with special safety features and was the largest light vessel ever built. The vessel was somewhat unusual in being only at the Nantucket station except for the war years of 1942-1945 and 1958-1960 when assigned as the relief vessel for the ...
The vessel was previously believed to have sunk southeast of Nantucket Shoals, according to the Asbury Park Press, but the D/V Tenacious team found the wreck on Georges Bank, about 200 miles from ...
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 21 ...
New England Aquarium researchers spotted one group of migrating right whales on Feb. 20 in the Great South Channel, an area east of Nantucket between the Nantucket Shoals and Georges Bank.
After colliding with the barque Adriatic ( United States) in fog on 2 November, the steamer sank in the Nantucket Shoals in the North Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. One hundred and twenty passengers and crew perished. Sixteen survivors were rescued by the barques Elise ( Bremen) and Elise ( Hamburg).