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Monomoy Shoals is a set of shoals (shallow, sandy ocean bottom) off Monomoy Point (which is in Chatham, Massachusetts on Cape Cod). It lies in the Atlantic Ocean just outside Nantucket Sound. Constituent named shoals include: [1] Bearse Shoal; Handkerchief Shoal; Little Round Shoal; Stonehorse Shoal
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.
Detail from NOAA nautical chart 12300 showing the Nantucket Shoals in relation to Nantucket Island.. Nantucket Shoals is an area of dangerously shallow water in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, eastward for 23 miles (37 km) and southeastward for 40 miles (64 km); in places water depth can be as shallow as 3 feet (0.91 m). [1]
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 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 ...
The boundary between the federal waters and state waters has left the middle of Nantucket Sound without the protections afforded our state waters. YOUR TURN: Time to close the circle on Nantucket ...
Nantucket Sound, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is 30 miles (48 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on the west. [1] Between Cape ...
New England Aquarium researchers spotted one group of migrating right whales on Feb. 20 in the Great South Channel, an area east of Nantucket between the Nantucket Shoals and Georges Bank.