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LV-117 was a steel- hulled vessel with steel deckhouses fore and aft, a funnel amidships for engine exhaust, and two masts. An electric lantern topped each mast, and an electric foghorn was on the mainmast. The vessel also had submarine signal capability, using a submarine oscillator, giving greater range and reliability for fog signals.
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 ...
Several ships have been assigned to the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket. It was common for a lightship to be reassigned and then have the new station name painted on the hull. The Nantucket station was a significant US lightship station for transatlantic voyages. Established in 1854, the station marked the ...
A luxury yacht that was rammed in fog by the steamer H. F. Dimock off Chatham. Aransas. 7 May 1905. A passenger steamer that collided with the schooner barge Glendower in fog, off Chatham. USS Bancroft. United States Navy. July 1945. A Clemson -class destroyer that sank in a collision off Cape Cod. Dixie Sword.
The Lightship Ambrose (WLV-613) was commissioned in 1952 and became the last lightship to mark the Ambrose Channel when she was replaced by a Texas Tower lightstation on 24 August 1967. She was reassigned as a relief ship on the Massachusetts coastline from 1967 to 1975. After being renamed Relief (1967 to 1980) and then Nantucket II (1980 to ...
Lightships. "Nantucket"is a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least eleven individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including: LV-58 (1894-1896) LV-85 (1907-1923), under US Navy control 1917-1919 [1] LV-117 (1930-1934) LV-112 (for periods between 1936 and 1975), now preserved in Boston ...
But it wasn’t the first. Ella Nilsen, CNN. July 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM. The massive offshore wind turbine blade that broke and spread fiberglass and foam debris across Nantucket beaches this week ...
Whaling Captain. Genre. Non fiction. Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was first mate of the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific Ocean on November 20, 1820, after being rammed by a sperm whale. Soon after his return to Nantucket, Chase wrote an account of the shipwreck and the attempts of the crew to reach land in small boats.