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Monday, October 15. 2007

Nantucket Lightship WLV-612

Chris took this photo in Connecticut on Saturday, and sent it over with an email which said drily "I have some reason to believe this might be the Nantucket Lightship."

Coast Guard Lightships marked the dangerous Nantucket Shoals since 1854. The Shoals are located on the heavily-trafficked transatlantic route to New York, 50 miles off the Nantucket coast. This lightship, "Nantucket 2," was decommisioned in 1983.

She has been refurbished as an elegant charter and events ship. The photos of the interior would surely not be recognizable to the guys who manned her.

You can tour the Ambrose Lightship, familiar to all sea travellers due to its old ocean station outside New York Harbor, in its original condition at New York's South Street Seaport.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:15 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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And if you'd like to tour a lightship, the Lightship COLUMBIA is on display at the Columbia River Maritime Museum (www.crmm.com) in Astoria, OR. (Note the live web-cam feature.)
#1 Sam L. on 2007-10-15 10:24 (Reply)
Not to mention the relief lightship Swiftsure currently being restored at Northwest Seaport on the Seattle waterfront at Lake Union:

http://www.hnsa.org/ships/swiftsure.htm
#2 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-10-15 11:44 (Reply)
I think Chris's deduction may be correct --if you look close, there is some lettering on the hull that supports him.
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-10-15 13:46 (Reply)

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