List of ships named Nantucket
A number of ships have been named Nantucket, after the island off the Massachusetts coast, including the following:
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- USS Nantucket (1862), a Passaic-class coastal monitor that served in the Union during the American Civil War, and sold in 1900
- 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]
- USS Nantucket (LCS-27), a planned Freedom-class littoral combat ship, launched in 2021
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- USCGC Nantucket (WPB-1316), an Island-class patrol boat launched in 1987, and reported transferred to Ukraine in 2018[2]
Ferry service[edit]
- The ferry to Nantucket island has been operated by many vessels, including:
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:
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]
- ^ a b "Nantucket II (Light Ship)". DANFS. Naval History and Heritage Command, US Navy. August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^ "Ukraine to receive two former U.S. Coast Guard Island-class cutters". navaltoday.com. April 3, 2018. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
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