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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.
Torpedoed by and sunk by U-53, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-north-east of Nantucket. U-550 Kriegsmarine: 16 April 1944 A Type IXC/40 U-boat sunk by USS Joyce off Nantucket: Unnamed crane barge 1 November 1963 A crane barge that foundered in Nantucket Sound
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.
In early 1819 a party from Volunteer investigated the wreck, finding it on the rocks, full of water, with hundreds of Haida on board or nearby, determined to repel any attempt to salvage anything. [4] USC&GS Carlile P. Patterson United States: 11 December 1938 A research vessel that ran ashore in the Gulf of Alaska. City of Seattle: 15 August 1912
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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.
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