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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.
A ship that was stranded on High Pines, a section of Duxbury beach off the Gurnet. "In March 1792, the ship Columbia, of three hundred tons, of Portland, Capt. Isaac Chauncy, was stranded on the beach at the High Pines, and fourteen men lost, and two, the second mate and a boy, were saved." [8] Columbia United States: 26 November 1898
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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
On 21 March 1975 LV-112 was withdrawn from Nantucket station and replaced by WLV-612 and decommissioned on 28 March 1975 for lay up at Chelsea, Massachusetts. During 6–7 December a volunteer crew of Nantucket Islanders delivered the ship to Nantucket for use as a museum ship until 1984.
The museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays-Mondays (closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and admission is $20 for adults, $13 for ages 4-12, free for ages 3 and younger, $17 for ages 65 and older, $17 ...
11-Year-Old Girl Survives 3 Days at Sea by Holding Onto Inner-Tube A search and rescue team may have missed an 11-year-old shipwreck survivor had it not been for what they called an "incredible ...