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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.
The cargo consisted of fifteen hogsheads spermaceti oil, 100 barrels tar, and the rigging and sails of the ship Charles, which was cast away near Nantucket - all of which will be saved with little damage. It is not known by the mate who the oil belongs to; it will be forwarded to Boston immediately. Your humble servant, Reuben Drew." [13] Rodney
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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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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