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At 350 tons, Nantucket was the first Nantucket Island ship built of Live oak with copper fastenings. The construction cost for the vessel was $52,000. [15] Nantucket's short life ended when she was wrecked in 1859. Two whale ships under construction at Brant Point, Nantucket – on the launch ways and on “camels”, nd.
Sankaty was designed by Chauncey G. Whiton. [1] The ship was 195 feet (59 m) long, [1] a slim vessel with twin propellers and twin smokestacks. [2] She had a 36-foot (11 m) beam, [3] and 32 feet (10 m) at the waterline and drew 9 feet 6 inches (2.9 m) of water.
The first US lightship was put in place off of Willoughby Spit in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, in 1820. [1] Lightships remained in service in the United States until March 29, 1985, when the last ship, the Nantucket I, was decommissioned. [2]
This was the first of 15 voyages in which the Coffins were sole or part owners of this ship which brought in over half a million dollars to the Nantucket Coffin family and others. [ 7 ] On June 23, 1812, Coffin, with a group of other Nantucket men [Daniel Coffin, Isaac Coffin, Silvanus Macy, Obed Macy, James Barker, Paul Gardner, Jr., and ...
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 ...
The Nantucket was a 350-ton whaler built in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1837.First master, David N. Edwards, 1837-40 (left ship, replaced by F. C. Sanford), then: George Washington Gardner, 1841–45; [1] Benjamin C. Gardner, 1845–50; Richard C. Gibbs 1850-54 (rescued Captain John Deblois and his crew two days after the ship Ann Alexander was sunk by a whale); Richard C. Gibbs (1855–59).
USS Nantucket (IX-18), built in 1876 as USS Ranger and served as Nantucket from 1918 to 1942, as a gunboat and then a survey/school ship; USS Nantucket (SP-1153), an 1899-built coastal passenger steamer taken up in 1917, but found unsuitable for naval service and returned to her owner [1]
The first USS Nantucket was a Passaic-class coastal monitor in the United States Navy. Nantucket was launched 6 December 1862 by Atlantic Iron Works , Boston, Massachusetts ; and commissioned 26 February 1863, Commander Donald McNeil Fairfax in command.