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The Nantucket Lightship

© Laura L. Mahoney

The Nantucket Lightship

Uploaded: December 03, 2011

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Lightship 612 was completed in 1950 and she served as San Francisco Lightship for 18 years and then for a short period (1969-1971) as Blunts Reef Lightship. She is the only lightship to have transited the Panama Canal both ways. 612 served as Portland Lightship, 1971-1975, and then as Nantucket II. 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.. When this assignment ended, the ship returned to Boston and was decommissioned in 1985, concluding 35 years of Coast Guard service.

Exif: F Number: 9, Exposure Bias Value: -0.67, ExposureTime: 1/400 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 100, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 147.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 60D

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