Lightship Nantucket - Name and Station Assignments

Name and Station Assignments

Lightship 85:

  • Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1907–23)
  • Relief, 1st District (1923–42)
  • Examination vessel, World War II (1942–44)
  • Relief, 1st District (1944–51)
  • Boston, Boston, MA (1951–62)

Lightship 117:

  • Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1931–34)

Lightship 112:

  • Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1936–42)
  • Examination Vessel, World War II (1942–45)
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1945–58)
  • Relief, 1st District (1958–60)
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1960–75)

Lightship 612:

  • San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (1951–69)
  • Blunts Reef, Blunts Reef, CA (1969–71)
  • Portland, Portland, ME (1971–75)
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1975–83)

Lightship WLV-613:

  • Ambrose, Ambrose Channel, NY (1952–67)
  • Relief, MA (1967–79)
  • Nantucket-II, Nantucket Shoals, MA (1979–83)
  • Nantucket-II relieved 612 for one day then was relieved by a Large Navigational Buoy, therefore 613 was last Lightship on station in US.

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