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List of ships named Nantucket

A number of ships have been named Nantucket, after the island off the Massachusetts coast, including the following:

Naval vessels edit

and

Ferry service edit

Lightships edit

  • "Nantucket"is a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least eleven 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 between 1936 and 1975), now preserved in Boston, Massachusetts
    • WLV-613 (1967-1983)
    • WLV-612 (1975-1983) (last two latterly alternating)

Other ships edit

  • Nantucket (1837), a whaling ship, wrecked in 1859
  • Nantucket Clipper, a 1984-built cruise ship, later trading as Spirit of Nantucket

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Nantucket II (Light Ship)". DANFS. Naval History and Heritage Command, US Navy. August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  2. ^ "Ukraine to receive two former U.S. Coast Guard Island-class cutters". navaltoday.com. April 3, 2018. from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.

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