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The museum features over 5,000 objects and memorabilia gathered from local shipwrecks from the past 300 years. The collection includes period surfboats, beach carts, Fresnel lenses from Brant Point and Great Point lights, vintage photographs, models of lifesaving stations throughout the island of Nantucket, and models of ships that have wrecked in the past few centuries.
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates Alva: 25 July 1892 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 ...
It is run by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Whaling Museum is the flagship site of the Nantucket Historical Association’s fleet of properties. Restored in 2005, the Nantucket Whaling Museum has an expanded exhibit and program space that connects the 1847 Hadwen & Barney Oil and Candle Factory and the 1971 Peter Foulger Museum.
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Nantucket Massachusetts Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum: No N/A N/A Replica Narragansett Rhode Island Coast Guard House [18] U.S. Life-Saving Service 1848–1915: Narragansett Pier Life Saving Station: NRHP 76000010: June 30, 1976 Restaurant Nauset Massachusetts
Transferred to the U.S. Navy on August 6, 1971 for further transfer to Vietnam. it is unknown what became of this ship. [F] [47] Lightship LV-101: 1916: 1963: Cape Charles (1916 – 1924) Relief (1925 – 1926) Overfalls (1926 – 1951) Stonehorse Shoal (1951 – 1963) Now a museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. [48] Lightship LV-102: 1916: 1963
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