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	New Jersey Lighthouses
		The lightship Barnegat is now at Camden, New Jersey, and the Winter Quarter (now called the Liberty) is at Jersey City, but the Ambrose is moored in New York.
		After retirement the lightship was sent to Hampton VA to be a museum, but it isn't clear if it was ever used in this way.
		The Ambrose offshore light tower, damaged in a collision with a ship in 1997, has been replaced by a skeletal tower.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/nj.htm (3686 words)

	National Lighthouse Museum - Ambrose Lightship
		The Ambrose Lightship (# 87) established in 1907 served the captains of New York Harbor for many years.
		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.
		She was decommissioned in 1968 and donated to the Seaport, which has preserved her as a museum.
	www.lighthousemuseum.org /nylights/ambrose.htm (169 words)

	National Lighthouse Museum - Ambrose Lightship
		The Ambrose got her name from the Ambrose Channel, which marks the southern entrance to the harbor.
		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.
		For a period, she served as a Relief ship off Sandy Hook and during the Second World War, the Ambrose spent her time as an Examination ship at Fort Hancock, New Jersey.
	www.lighthousemuseum.org /nylights/ambrose.htm (169 words)

	Diversion II / NJScuba.com - Relief Lightship (WAL-505)
		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 10,270 tons, the C-2 cargo ship dwarfed the 660-ton lightship, whose station was between the Green Bay and the open sea.
		At the head of Ambrose Channel stands a large steel structure which resembles an offshore oil rig.
	www.njscuba.com /njscuba/shipwrecks_relief_ship.html (2446 words)

	Sea Girt Lighthouse
		In 1921, Ambrose Lightship and Fire Island Lighthouse in New York were the first lightstations in the world to have a radio beacon installed.
		In 1981, the Sea Girt Lighthouse Citizens Committee was established to restore and preserve the structure.
		During World War II, Sea Girt's light was darkened, but the Coast Guard used the lighthouse as a headquarters for patrolling the beach against invasion and as a lookout for U-boats.
	www.angelfire.com /nj2/webby/njlighthouses/seagirt.html (219 words)

	Sea Girt History
		In May of 1921, radio beacons were installed on the Sea Girt Lighthouse, Ambrose Lightship and Fire Island Lighthouse.
		On August 10, 1956, the Lighthouse was sold to the Borough of Sea Girt for $11,000.
		In August 1981, the Sea Girt Lighthouse Citizens Committee Inc. was formed and signed a 25 year lease for the building at $1 per year.
	www.visitmonmouth.com /lighthouses/sea_girt_history.htm (874 words)

	New Jersey Lighthouses
		The lightship Barnegat is now at Camden, New Jersey, and the Winter Quarter (now called the Liberty) is at Jersey City, but the Ambrose is moored in New York.
		New Jersey has at least 20 surviving lighthouses (counting Navesink as 2), of which at least 14 are active.
		New Jersey is home to the nation's oldest lighthouse (Sandy Hook) and several other very historic light stations.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/lighthouse/nj.htm (874 words)

	Photos & Stereo Views
		AMBROSE LIGHTSHIP 1952 with SS United States - GERALD LEVEY
		Levey has been designated a Navy and Coast Guard artist and is listed in the "Dictionary of Sea Painters of Europe and America," the authoritative compilation of marine artist of the 15th through 20th centuries.
		Many good shots of the Fury and Hecla Sound, Kane Basin (between Ellesmore Island and Greenland, Dundas Harbor (Ellesmore), Greenland natives, Thule, dogs, ice, walrus skins drying, etc. There are 65 views from this cruise.
	www.lighthouseantiques.net /photos/photos.html (874 words)

	Index of The Great Migration; the Atlantic crossing by sailingship since 1770 64003455
		Albany, 190, 193-7, 201, 202 Albany Advertiser, 194 Allan, Sir Hugh, 239 Allan Steamship Line, 239, 240 Ambrose Lightship, 246 Anderson, Rev. Richard, 151 fn, Annan, 147 Anthony's Nose, 193, 199 Anticosti, 142-3 Antwerp, 131 Apple Island, 143 Arfwedson, C. D., 80 fn., 211 Ashe, Thomas, 182 fn.
		Stewart, Thomas, 112 Strachan, Rev. John, 225 Strickland, Samuel, 30 fn., 115, 125, 140, 141, 166 Strickland, Mrs.
		Grosse Isle, 19, 27, 31, 89, 90, 94-7, 144, 145-54, 159, 183 Guelph, 212 Guillet, Edwin C., 164 fn., 209 fn., 213 fn., 221 fn.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/becites/genealogy/immigrant/64003455.idx.html (2282 words)

	South Street Seaport - Historic New York - New York Magazine
		Along with the lightship Ambrose and the wrought-iron Wavertree, the Peking is open to visitors as part of the South Street Seaport Museum, which also incorporates the seascape-themed Melville Gallery and hosts various exhibits and family activities.
		Across South Street, the wooden-planked stretch of the dock begins and the towering 1911 Peking, a four-masted barque, emerges to captivating effect.
		This preserved seaport on the East River peaked as a commercial center in the early 1800s, so the dozens of stores lining its blocks and filling its pavilion—from Coach and Abercrombie and Fitch to the folksier New York Shell Shop—may not be so out of character.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /pages/venues/195.htm (527 words)

	Lightships in the US
		However, she retains excellent integrity of design in every other area, was the first lightship in the United States equipped with a radio beacon, and served with distinction on the nationally-significant Ambrose Station, marking the entrance to New York harbor, the nation's principal port.
		In 1909, the heyday of the United States Lighthouse Service, there were 51 lightships (46 on the eastern seaboard and five on the Pacific Coast) on station in the United States.
		While the first American lighthouse dates to the colonial era, the use of lightships is a more recent 19th century phenomenon in the United States, though employed earlier in Europe.
	www.cr.nps.gov /MARITIME/ltshipnhltheme.htm (527 words)

	Cruise Travel: Landmark Light Tower Replaced - Brief Article
		The former tower, which itself replaced the lightship in 1967, was struck by the tanker MT Aegeo in October of 1996, damaging a 15-foot leg section beyond repair.
		The Ambrose Light Tower, an oil-rig-type structure that until automated in 1988 had a crew of U.S. Coast Guardsmen keepers onboard, has now been replaced at the entrance to New York Harbor.
		The new tower was floated in location, 1 1/2 miles southeast of the old tower, and special legs sunk down in 95 feet of water to hold it in place.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCP/is_1_22/ai_64564183 (527 words)

	Lightship Stickers
		Lightship NANTUCKET II Boston MA (Also served as Ambrose and Relief)
		Lewes DE (Was actually Boston; Also served as Cornfield, Cross Rip)
		Boston MA (Also served as San Francisco, Blunts Reef, Portland)
	www.lighthousestickers.com /stickers/LIGHTSHIP_stickers.htm (161 words)

	Lightship Station Assignments
		While acting as a relief lightship for WLV-613, Relief Lightship LV-78 / WAL-505 was rammed and sunk on Ambrose** Channel Station on 24 June 1960.
		The Five Fathom Bank Northeast Lighted Whistle Buoy "2FB" is close to the former lightship station.
		Relief LV-79 marked the station briefly in 1926 between the departure of LV-44 and the arrival of the newly constructed LV-111.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/Lightship_Station_Index.html (161 words)

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