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* Lightship No. 61 " Corsica Shoals " was destroyed in the same storm on Lake Huron as Lightship 82.
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* The Lightship Ambrose ( No. 87 ) in New York Harbor at the South Street Seaport.
* Lightship No. 84 ( 135 feet long, weighing 683 tons ), lies sunk in a shallow section of New York Harbor and its two masts are still visible above the surface.
Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71
Lightship No. 83, aka Swiftsure, built in 1904, is one of Northwest Seaport's historic fleet
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Mushroom Anchor on the lightvessel | Lightship Portsmouth in Virginia.
In 1963 Dr. Harold Edgerton, Edward Curley, and John Yules used a conical-beam 12kHz side-scan sonar to find the sunken Vineyard Lightship in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
" The course started around New York Harbor, at Sarah Ledge, then led around the eastern end of Block Island, then around Fire Island Lightship, finishing at Montauk Point Whistling Buoy.
* Lightship Huron.
Lightship Finngrundet, now a museum ship in Stockholm.
Lightship Portsmouth ( LV-101 ) shows its mushroom anchor.
For example, the Huron Lightship was painted black since she was assigned the black buoy side of the entrance to the Lake Huron Cut.
Surviving lightships are commonly taken to be named according to these labels, but for instance the " Lightship Chesapeake " actually served at two other stations as well as being used for examinations, and last served at the Delaware Light Station.
Lightship # 51 at Sandy Hook, NJ, as it appeared in the 1890s.
It should be noted that in 1832 the first Lightship on the Great Lakes -- the Lois McLain -- was placed at Waugoshance Shoal.
* Lightship LV 82, Buffalo foundered in Lake Erie near Buffalo, during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 with the loss of six lives.
See Huron Lightship for further details.
* The Nantucket Lightship LV-117 was rammed and sunk in 1934 by RMS Olympic homing in on its radio beacon, with a loss of seven out of a crew of eleven.
* The first lightship on the Pacific Coast, the Lightship Columbia, marked the entrance to the Columbia River, near Astoria, Oregon.
* Lightship, a 1934 novel by Archie Binns.
* The Lightship, a translation of the 1960 novel Das Feuerschiff by Siegfried Lenz.
Lightship and Shoals
The Lightship Nantucket or Nantucket Shoals was the name given to the lightvessel which marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island.
During World War II, Lightship 112 was withdrawn from the Nantucket Shoals station and used as an examination vessel in Portland, Maine.
Built in 1950 at Curtis Bay, Maryland by the United States Coast Guard Yard for $ 500, 000, Lightship 612 was the last ship to serve a full tour of duty on the Nantucket Shoals station and was also the last US lightship in commission.
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* In the 1990s, the Boston Beer Company produced a light beer was called Lightship, with a picture of a 19th Century lightship in rough seas on the label.
The incident was the subject of a 1940 British Government propaganda film, Men of the Lightship.
The bay was home to the Lightship Rose which provided a permanent navigation aid to passing ships at the mouth of the Brisbane River.
The entrance to the Ambrose Channel was marked for many years by the Lightship Ambrose, which was superseded by the Ambrose Light.
The Blackwater Lightship is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
He drowned when the Oberon, on which he and his father were travelling, was wrecked seven miles south of the Laeso Trindel Lightship, Denmark.
It was first used in April 1844, but is no longer used, having been made redundant by the establishment of the North Carr Lightship in 1887 and the building is now used for bird watching.
When the Primagen's Lightship was destroyed, the chain reaction it triggered as a result was so powerful that the universe as it existed was completely eradicated, and the almighty Oblivion was pushed to the very brink of destruction.
The Lightship, Skolimowski ’ s first US production, was adapted from a novella by the German writer Siegfried Lenz.
Ranson was awarded the Lloyd ’ s Life Saving Medal " as an honorary acknowledgement of his extraordinary exertions in contributing to the saving of life on the occasion of the steamships Republic and Florida being in collision in the vicinity of the Nantucket Lightship on the 23 January 1909 ".
Further north, it also claimed the Lightship Vineyard Sound ( LV-73 ), which was sunk with the loss of all 12 aboard.
Lightship 11 was built in 1853 by Tardy & Auld of Baltimore, Maryland for $ 13, 462. 00.
Lightship 11 was built of white oak and equipped with two lanterns and a hand operated bell fog signal.
Lightship 11 was blown ashore in 1855 and rebuilt at the New York Navy Yard for further service at Brenton Reef, Rhode Island.
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* Lightship Columbia, the first lightship on the Pacific coast of the United States, docked in Astoria, Oregon
* Information on the Huron Lightship from the Port Huron Museum ( including hours and a virtual tour of the Lightship.
Lightship LV86, on station at the Nore from 1931 to 1974
Begg of the Hazeldene from Cardiff, en route from Horndillo to Glasgow, mistook the South Rock Lightship for the light on the Mull of Galloway and drove his ship on to Cannon Rock.
In the United Kingdom, a duty cycle of about 30 % is used — usually 20 seconds in which the racon will respond to radar signals is followed by 40 seconds when it will not, or sometimes 9 seconds on and 21 seconds off ( as in the case of the Sevenstones Lightship ).
* Artwork from Lightship on a science fiction blog
* Lightship Ambrose, the name given to multiple lightships that were stationed on the Ambrose Channel
* The Spirit of Safety I, ( built by American Blimp Corporation ) registered as G-TLEL and owned and operated by Lightship Europe Limited, ( but operating in Goodyear livery ), caught fire while on landing approach to the Reichelsheim Airport ( ICAO code EDFB ) and crashed on 12 June 2011, near Reichelsheim, Hesse, Germany.
Lightship 66 was built on a wood-sheathed steel frame and equipped with a 12-inch steam chime whistle, and a cluster of four electric lens lanterns mounted in galleries at each mast head.
Lightship 85 was transferred to the U. S. Navy by Executive Order on April 11, 1917, along with the entire Lighthouse Service.
Lightship 106 was built on a steel hull and equipped with a 12-inch steam chime whistle, a hand operated bell, a submarine bell, a submarine oscillator, a radio beacon, and a electric lens lantern at each mast head.
Lightship 117 at Nantucket was sideswiped by the in early 1934, and four months later, on May 15, 1934, she was rammed and sunk by the British White Star ship homing in on its radio beacon in dense fog.
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