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	lightship on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lightships are generally stationed at points where a lighthouse cannot be erected; they are given distinctive features (e.g., high bows, special coloring) so as to be readily distinguishable from other vessels, and they have strong hulls, able to withstand consistent pressures.
		The first lightship in the United States was posted in 1820 (in the Elizabeth River, near Norfolk, Va.).
		Afterward, for a time, lightships proliferated; but their number has steadily decreased since the end of World War I. They are costly to staff and maintain, and various engineering developments, such as the construction of large radio buoys, have helped to reduce the need for them.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l1/lightshi.asp (361 words)

	Lightship bell raised from ocean's depths: 9/ 3/ 2004
		It was nighttime, May 14, 1935, and the 130-foot Lightship was anchored where it always was; 50 miles southeast of Nantucket, smack dab in the middle of the terminus of the trans-Atlantic shipping lanes.
		For the crews of the lightships, monthlong watches onboard their ships were often long periods of boredom, punctuated by fear of being cleaved in half by bigger ships.
		He began tracking hang numbers in the general area of the known lightship station, which is in what was once a rich cod fishery and is now known as the Nantucket Lightship closed area -- a no-go zone for fishermen.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/09-04/09-03-04/a01lo270.htm (916 words)

	The United States Lighthouse Society \| Lightship LV605, Relief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lightships were important aids to navigation and are an important part of our maritime heritage.
		Lightship stations, with their aids to navigation, were established to show the entrance to a harbor or bay such as the San Francisco station.
		Because lightships often served on several stations during their service life they are officially known by their hull number, in our case the number is LV 605, which stands for light vessel #605.
	www.uslhs.org /inner/lightship.html (763 words)

	Seeing The Light - The Lighthship Huron
		Lightship 103, "Huron" began her life in the Consolidated Shipbuilding Co in Morris Heights New York, with the laying of her keel in 1918.
		Both lightships then steamed under their own power to Ogdensburg, New York, where they were met by the tender Crocus, and escorted to Detroit.
		Replaced by a lighted buoy, she was the final remaining Great Lakes lightship, and with her departure a long and honorable tradition came to an end.
	www.terrypepper.com /lights/huron/huron/huron.htm (831 words)

	This is the Nantucket Lightship
		Lightship 612 was completed in 1950 at the Coast Guard Yard and sailed for the West Coast where she served as San Francisco Lightship for 18 years and then for a short period (1969-1971) as Blunts Reef Lightship.
		In 1983 the last lightship station, Nantucket, was discontinued and 612 had the unique distinction to become a white cutter, sent to the Caribbean to act as a fueling station for the SES (surface effect) vessels engaged in drug interdiction..
		Not so lucky was lightship 117 on Nantucket station in 1934, cut in half by the SS Olympic (sister ship of the Titanic), seven out of the eleven man crew were lost.
	www.radiocom.net /TUK (1959 words)

	Huron Lightship
		Lightships were like floating lighthouses anchored in areas where it was too deep, expensive or impractical to construct a lighthouse.
		Lightships displayed a light at the top of a mast and in areas of fog also sounded a fog signal and radio beacon.
		The Huron Lightship sounded her fog horn signal in a 3 second blast every 30 seconds and was known locally as "Old B.O." because of the familiar sound her horn made.
	www.phmuseum.org /lightship/lightship.htm (206 words)

	Chesapeake Chapter, US Lighthouse Society - Our Lighthouse Heritage - Lightship Portsmouth
		Lightship #101 was built in 1915 and was first stationed off Cape Charles, VA at the CHARLES light station.
		The lightship is part of the Portsmouth Museums, and is associated with the Naval Shipyard Museum.
		The lightship is located in the heart of the Portsmouth waterfront and is open Tues-Sat from 10AM - 5 PM, Sundays from 1 PM to 5 PM, and is closed on Mondays (Off Season).
	www.cheslights.org /heritage/ship-portsmouth.htm (264 words)

	LIGHTSHIPS AND LIGHTSHIP STATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This material was originally compiled and written by Willard Flint and published by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1989 as Lightships and Lightship Stations of the United States Government: Reference Notes.
		There being no Relief lightships, stations frequently went unmarked for weeks or months on end during periods when it was necessary to withdraw the assigned vessel for repair.
		In the early 1800s, crew on the early lightships ranged from one officer and four or five crewmen to two officers and eight or ten crewmen on the larger vessels.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/LightshipIndex.html (370 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Lightship
		His rebellious son has dropped in for a stint on the lightship and is eager to get away as soon as possible.
		The Lightship is a relatively tense little number that benefits from its claustrophobic setting and the jarring realism of the violence.
		The lightship, a vessel I had to this point been unfamiliar with, is a bona fide character itself.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/lightship.php (742 words)

	National Lighthouse Museum - Ambrose Lightship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ambrose Lightship (# 87) established in 1907 served the captains of New York Harbor for many years.
		She was decommissioned in 1968 and donated to the Seaport, which has preserved her as a museum.
		Lightships were used in the channel because the construction of a lighthouse would have been too dangerous in the deep turbulent waters or sandy bottoms.
	www.lighthousemuseum.org /nylights/ambrose.htm (169 words)

	Lightship LV-116 "Chesapeake"
		By reading through these men's recollections, faithfully recorded by a dedicated historian of lightships, you may find out what it was like to serve on an incredibly small vessel, forever tied to one location, for months at a time.
		As lightships generally took on the name of their duty stations, LV-116 was known as the Fenwick until June 30, 1933.
		But, then once a month, she would go north and work the lightships north, and then in the middle of the month, she’d go south and work the ones down south which was Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/CHESAPEAKE.html (14371 words)

	Liverpool Lightship Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She served ships in the Mersey from 1961 to 1972 and was the last sight Merseyside sailors saw of their home and the first sight when they returned safely.
		In 1913 the lightship "Alarm" built by Hawthorne and Co. of Leath was placed at the Bar Station.
		The ship would begin another swing more slowly this time and on actuation of the D/F gong simultaneous relative bearing of both Radio and Compass bearings of the lightship would be taken, the compass adjuster shouting his bearings down to the radio engineer who recorded both his own and those called.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/m0bnn/lightship.htm (4611 words)

	Listing of US Lightships as Museums & Lightship Pages
		Until 1867, lightships were generally referred to by the name of the station that was often painted on the side of the hull.
		After 1867 all lightships were given a permanent number, while the station's name could be changed depending on the station served.
		The Lightship 612 underwent a radical transformation over a 2 year period and now seaworthy, with its former "innards" being transferred to the Museum of Lighthouse History at the Lighthouse Depot in Wells, Maine for future display.
	www.nightbeacon.com /lighthouseinformation/listingofuslightshipsasmuseums.htm (1049 words)

	Lightship WLV-612 - San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The lightship, designated WLV-612, was built in Curtis Bay, MD in 1950 and first put into service in 1951 in San Francisco Bay.
		Eventually in 1975 it served off the coast of Nantucket and 1979 was then designated with the name Nantucket I. It alternated duty with WLV-613, also known as Lightship Nantucket II (click here to see the WLV-613 lightship page).
		Lightship WLV-612, now still known as Nantucket I, is privately owned and docked at a pier in Quincy, MA.
	www.cyberlights.com /lh/calif/sanfrancisco.htm (247 words)

	Huron Lightship Museum
		When retired from active service in 1970, she was the last lightship on the Great Lakes.
		Acquired by the City of Port Huron by mandate of area residents, the ship was enshrined at Pine Grove Park in 1972 as a tribute to her vigilance and in fond memory of a by-gone era.
		She is the only lightship on the Great Lakes to be so honored.
	www.boatnerd.com /museums/huron (76 words)

	Huron Lightship Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Huron Lightship was launched in 1920 as Lightship 103 of the United States Lighthouse Service.
		When she was withdrawn in 1970 she was the last of 22 lightships on the Great Lakes and the only lightship to keep her station throughout World War II.
		In 1972 she was enshrined alongside the St. Clair River at Pine Grove Park in Port Huron as a tribute to her vigilance and in memory of a by-gone era.
	www.northernmichigan.com /public/lighthouses/LakeHuron/huronlightship/huronlightship.html (848 words)

	new_nantucket_
		The Nantucket Lightship that once kept vessels off the shoals southeast of the island has been completely restored into a floating home and vacation charter boat.
		Nantucket Lightship WLV-612 was built in 1950 at a Coast Guard shipyard in Curtis Bay, Md. She served off San Francisco for 18 years, at Blunts Reef, Calif. and in Portland, Maine before finally coming to Nantucket, where she served as the last manned lightship in the country from 1975-1983.
		She was replaced with a signal buoy, and briefly functioned as a security-communications vessel for then Vice President George W. Bush before being acquired by the state’s Metropolitan District Commission in 1987.
	www.uscglightshipsailors.org /new_nantucket_009.htm (1481 words)

	Diversion II / NJScuba.com - Relief Lightship (WAL-505) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At 10,270 tons, the C-2 cargo ship dwarfed the 660-ton lightship, whose station was between the Green Bay and the open sea.
		Captain Thomas Mazzella of the Green Bay saw the image of the lightship on his radar and steered directly for it, thus keeping to the center of the deep channel.
		At what he thought was a distance of one and a half miles, he ordered a slight course change to go around the anchored light ship.
	www.njscuba.com /njscuba/shipwrecks_relief_ship.html (2446 words)

	Lighthouses of England's North Sea Coast
		In October 2004 the ship was sold for £5,000, possibly for scrap, but it has appeared for sale on Sotheby's list with a price tag of £85,000.
		31.5 m (103 ft) wooden lightship with light tower amidships, painted red with white trim and an white horizontal stripe.
		The club was able to acquire the light tower of Lightship 88 as a substitute, although the two towers are not identical.
	www.unc.edu /%7Erowlett/lighthouse/enge.htm (5980 words)

	NewStandard: 9/14/99
		It also will honor the crews of the Nantucket Shoals Lightship, which sank in 1934 in a collision with the sistership of the Titanic, and the Cross Rip Lightship, which also lost with all hands in a winter storm on Nantucket Sound in 1918.
		The lightship memorial dedication is one of a series of events the city has planned to celebrate the millennium as a White House designated millennium community.
		Flagg was one of five crew members from the Lightship who were off duty and ashore when the 1944 hurricane struck on Sept. 14 and is the last survivor.
	www.s-t.com /daily/09-99/09-14-99/c01lo216.htm (626 words)

	Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum exhibits and documents examples from the earliest forms created in the first half of the 19th Century to present day creations.
		Gradually modified by early Nantucket settlers, the baskets were originally used as utilitarian objects for carrying a wide variety of items from wood to food.
		This is how the term "lightship" became attached to the baskets.
	www.nantucketlightshipbasketmuseum.org (296 words)

	The historic lightship Overfalls, located at the Overfalls Maritime Museum Foundation, in Lewes, Delaware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Between 1938 and 1972 it was stationed at three different lightship stations: first, at Cornfield Point off the coast of Connecticut, then at the Cross Rip Station off the coast of Massachusetts, and finally the Boston Station just off Cape Cod.
		The Overfalls is one of only 17 remaining lightships out of a total of 179 built from 1820 to 1952.
		Click on this link for the story of the lightship's more recent adventures, which is just as fascinating as its past history.
	www.overfalls.org /ship.htm (219 words)

	Lightship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Lightship provides a bold central focus for the Churches of Wales and will be home to a centre for counselling, worship, exhibitions, meetings, a book shop, refreshment area and the cabins will be used for small residential stays, especially designed for youth groups.
		The vessel is a major attraction in its own right, but like all charities, the project depends on working in partnership with other organisations in a mutually beneficial way.
		The Lightship is run as a "non-profit making" venture and so we rely heavily on volunteers and contributions from private industry and public support and of course the churches.
	www.lightship2000.org.uk (183 words)

	Trinity House lightvessel No. 80
		May 1977 withdrawn and sold to become the headquarter for the Sea Cadets Corps in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, renamed in T.S. Orwell and used as a training-ship for the Sea Cadets.
		October 2004 sold for 5,000 £ to be scrapped against the wish of the members and even if there are people who probably would like to buy the ship and use it as an office.
		December 2004 the lightship is not scrapped but for sale at Sothebys for 85,000 £.
	www.feuerschiffseite.de /SCHIFFE/ENGLAND/LV80/lv80gb.htm (150 words)

	Lightship, Inc. -- Software Development and Network Engineering Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lightship meets your business goals with software and hardware technology solutions that work.
		Lightship is experienced with developing many solutions, such as:
		Using our extensive background in engineering, Lightship meets the needs of both large and small firms.
	www.lightshipinc.com (82 words)

	Internet Public Library: Lighthouses: A Photographic Journey
		The Lightship Huron was commissioned in 1921 as Light Vessel No. 103, and was built by the Charles L. Seabury Company of Morris Heights, New York, at a cost of $147,428.
		From 1923 to 1927 and in 1930 it served as the Gray's Reef Light Vessel, and in 1934 served at North Manitou Shoal.
		In 1935 it was permanently assigned to the Corsica Shoals as the Huron Station Light Vessel, six miles north of Port Huron, where it remained on duty until 1970.
	www.ipl.org /div/light/GL/LSHuron.html (250 words)

	Lightship-Award
		The DARC section Emden (DOK IØ6) is pleased to announce the issue of an award for establishing contact to those local sectione which have museum-converted lightship located in their areas.
		The list of DOKs may be expanded later as further lightships are converted to museums.
		Licensed visitors and swl may have up to 10 of their QSL cards stamped either at the lightship "AMRUMBANK" or museum on board in the city of Emden.
	www.darc-i06.de /award.htm (296 words)

	Lightship Umatilla (WLV-196) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1958 it was redesignated as a relief lightship; for most of the next two years it was stationed at Nantucket Shoals in relief of LV-112 (WAL-534), while that ship was being overhauled.
		From 1961 to 1971 it served the lightship station at Umatilla Reef, off the coast of Washington.
		Despite its rusty exterior, the ship is in fairly good condition and has its original masts; the light was displayed from the cage at the top of the foremast.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/photos/WLV196.htm (361 words)

	Lightship Index
		Individual lightship pages are listed below which include history along with possible pictures and artwork if available.
		If you or anyone you know has any information on lightships please send an e-mail.
		Operation of the early lightships was often inefficient and less than dependable.
	www.nightbeacon.com /zlightships/Lightship_Index.htm (494 words)

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