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A steam-powered ocean liner that collided with Florida south of Nantucket Island: Stephano United Kingdom: 8 October 1916 Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944
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.
The location of the Nantucket Shoals lightship station at the southern edge of the shoals. The station named Nantucket or Nantucket Shoals was served by a number of lightvessels (also termed lightships) that marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island. The vessels, given numbers as their "name," had the station name painted ...
Closest shipwreck to the mouth of the Buffalo River: Narragansett: 11 June 1880 A passenger paddle steamer of the Stonington Line that burned and sank on 11 June 1880, after a collision with her sister ship Stonington in heavy fog at 23:30 in Long Island Sound. Approximately 50 passengers, but only one crewman, died. Nisbet Grammer United Kingdom
This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around North America, within the territorial waters of countries which for political purposes are considered a part of the North American continent, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the island nations of the Caribbean.
Essex departed from Nantucket on August 12, 1819, on what was expected to be a roughly two-and-a-half-year voyage to the whaling grounds off the west coast of South America. The route towards Cape Horn was an indirect one dictated by the prevailing winds of the Atlantic Ocean .
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Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts, USA. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and ...