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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.
Aymar, Brandt (1967). A pictorial treasury of the marine museums of the world.New York, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. OCLC 1303121. Howe, Hartley Edward (1987).
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
at South Street Seaport museum 70: Lightship No. 103, "Huron" Michigan 20 December 1989: 71: Lightship No. 83, "Swiftsure" Washington 11 April 1989: 72: Lightship No. 101, "Portsmouth" Virginia 5 May 1989: 73: Lightship No. 112, "Nantucket" Massachusetts 20 December 1989: was in Connecticut and New York; now owned by the United States Lightship ...
Ship Image Country of preservation Region of preservation City of preservation From Year launched Type Fate Remarks SS Oriana [54] Japan: Ōita Prefecture: Beppu: United Kingdom: 1959 Ocean liner: Museum ship in Beppu from 1987 to 1995. Floating hotel in Shanghai from 1999 to 2002. Tourist attraction in Dalian from 2002 to 2004.
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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 ...
The Nantucket Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses the entire island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The original December 13, 1966 listing on the National Register of Historic Places included only the historic downtown core and the village of Siasconset , but was expanded in 1975 to include the entire island ...