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United States lightship Nantucket (LV-112) is a National Historic Landmark lightship that served at the Lightship Nantucket position. She was the last serving lightship and at time of its application as a landmark, one of only two capable of moving under their own power. [ 2 ]
LV-112 in Boston harbor In 1936, Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware built Lightship 112 , the largest lightship ever, for $300,956.00. This ship was paid for by the British government as reparation for the deadly collision between Olympic and Lightship 117 .
It is unknown what became of this ship. [B] [11] Lightship LV-9: 1858: 1925: Relief (1858–1915) Hedge Fence (1915–1925) Unknown [B] [12] Lightship LV-10: 1887: 1902: Grosse Pointe (1887–1902) LV-10 was originally purchased as a construction barge for the Lighthouse Service, then was converted to a lightship in 1887. It is unknown what ...
USLHT Arbutus (1933 ship) USS Arctic (1855) USLHT Armeria; USLHT Azalea; B. United States lightship Barnegat (LV-79) ... (LV-112) O. United States lightship Overfalls ...
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 ]
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 ...
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Patterned after the LV-112, [2] she has a hull unlike that of any of her sisters; in effect, a single-ship class. [4] She is the last riveted-hull lightship built for the United States Lighthouse Service , all subsequent ships having welded hulls.