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Several ships have been assigned to the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket. It was common for a lightship to be reassigned and then have the new station name painted on the hull. The Nantucket station was a significant US lightship station for transatlantic voyages. Established in 1854, the station marked the ...
LV-112 was built to replace LV-117 which had been sunk in a collision while assigned to Nantucket Shoals with special safety features and was the largest light vessel ever built. The vessel was somewhat unusual in being only at the Nantucket station except for the war years of 1942-1945 and 1958-1960 when assigned as the relief vessel for the ...
The shoals lie just off of a major transatlantic shipping lane. Numerous ships have been wrecked here, most recently and notably the oil tanker Argo Merchant in December 1976. Until 1983, the edge of the shoals was guarded by the Nantucket Lightship. The oil tanker Argo Merchant aground on Middle Rip, December 15, 1976.
Nantucket Shoals (1975 – 1983) Sold to private owner, operational and available for charter. She is the last lightship to be decommissioned by the coast guard. [67] Lightship WLV-613: 1952: 1983: Ambrose Channel (1952 – 1967) Relief (1967 – 1979) Nantucket Shoals (1979 – 1983) Sold to private owner.
The vessel was previously believed to have sunk southeast of Nantucket Shoals, according to the Asbury Park Press, but the D/V Tenacious team found the wreck on Georges Bank, about 200 miles from ...
In 1975 until 1983, the WLV-612 was reassigned as the Lightship Nantucket at Nantucket Shoals, a dangerous shoal 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Nantucket Island. From 1979 to 1983 the WLV-612 and the United States Lightship WLV-613 alternated at Nantucket Shoals as the Nantucket I and the Nantucket II, relieving each other approximately every 21 ...
The ship was thought to have sunk southeast of Nantucket Shoals off Massachusetts. The dive team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage , however, located the vessel farther out to sea, on the Georges Bank ...
Lightship Nantucket was a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least 11 individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including: LV-58 (1894–1896) LV-85 (1907–1923), under US Navy control 1917–1919 [1] LV-117 (1930–1934) LV-112 (for periods during 1936–1975), now preserved in Boston ...