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  2. Nantucket Shoals - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Lightship Nantucket - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of lightships of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. 1856 shipwreck that claimed 116 lives found off Massachusetts ...

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    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 ...

  6. List of shipwrecks of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Russell, On the night of the 5th instant, the sloop Prudence, Captain Alexander Gardner, of Nantucket, was cast ashore and stranded, on the beach, two miles north of Plymouth Light House. There were five men on board; the mate and a passenger was saved, the Captain and his son [Charles Gardner] was found dead; the others not yet found.

  7. Steamship that sunk in 1856 with 132 on board discovered in ...

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    The ship was thought to have sunk southeast of Nantucket Shoals off Massachusetts. The dive team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage , however, located the vessel farther out to sea, on the Georges Bank ...

  8. United States lightship Nantucket (WLV-612) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Wind power operations off Nantucket Island are suspended ...

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    The federal government has ordered an offshore wind developer off Nantucket Island, a popular summer tourist destination in Massachusetts, to suspend operations after parts of a damaged turbine ...