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USS Nantucket (IX-18), built in 1876 as USS Ranger and served as Nantucket from 1918 to 1942, as a gunboat and then a survey/school ship USS Nantucket (SP-1153) , an 1899-built coastal passenger steamer taken up in 1917, but found unsuitable for naval service and returned to her owner [ 1 ]
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At 350 tons, Nantucket was the first Nantucket Island ship built of Live oak with copper fastenings. The construction cost for the vessel was $52,000. [15] Nantucket's short life ended when she was wrecked in 1859. Two whale ships under construction at Brant Point, Nantucket – on the launch ways and on “camels”, nd.
This is a list of lightships of the United States, listing lightships operated by the United States government. The first US lightship was put in place off of Willoughby Spit in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, in 1820. [1] Lightships remained in service in the United States until March 29, 1985, when the last ship, the Nantucket I, was decommissioned ...
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 ...
Nantucket was commissioned on 16 November 2024 at Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston under the command of Commander Angela Eickelmann. [10] [11] At the time it was commissioned, the ship's home port was identified as Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Florida. [11] Nantucket arriving in Boston for commissioning in November 2024
This list includes ships that are owned and leased by the US Navy; ships that are formally commissioned, by way of ceremony, and non-commissioned. Ships denoted with the prefix "USS" are commissioned ships. Prior to commissioning, ships may be described as a pre-commissioning unit or PCU, but are officially referred to by name with no prefix. [1]
The Nantucket was a 350-ton whaler built in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1837.First master, David N. Edwards, 1837-40 (left ship, replaced by F. C. Sanford), then: George Washington Gardner, 1841–45; [1] Benjamin C. Gardner, 1845–50; Richard C. Gibbs 1850-54 (rescued Captain John Deblois and his crew two days after the ship Ann Alexander was sunk by a whale); Richard C. Gibbs (1855–59).