• Source: List of ships named Nantucket

A number of ships have been named Nantucket, after the island off the Massachusetts coast, including the following:




Naval vessels


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
USS Nantucket (LCS-27), a Freedom-class littoral combat ship commissioned in 2024




Ferry service


The Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket island has been operated by many vessels, including:
Nantucket (steamboat), a sidewheel steam ferry in service 1886 to 1910
Nantucket, the former Nobska (steamship), in service 1928 to 1956
SS Nantucket (1956), in service 1957 to 1974, then renamed Naushon
MV Nantucket, in service since 1974




Lightships


Lightship Nantucket was a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least 11 individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including:
LV-58 (1894–1896)
LV-85 (1907–1923), under US Navy control 1917–1919
LV-117 (1930–1934)
LV-112 (for periods during 1936–1975), now preserved in Boston, Massachusetts
WLV-613 (1967–1983)
WLV-612 (1975–1983) (alternated with WLV-613 in final years)




Other ships


Nantucket (1837), a whaling ship, wrecked in 1859
Nantucket Clipper, a 1984-built cruise ship, later trading as Spirit of Nantucket
USCGC Nantucket (WPB-1316), an Island-class patrol boat launched in 1987, and reported transferred to Ukraine in 2018




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• List of ships named Nantucket
• USS Nantucket
• Nantucket (disambiguation)
• Nantucket
• List of current ships of the United States Navy
• List of museum ships in North America
• List of cruise ships
• List of ships named John and James
• United States lightship Nantucket (LV-112)
• List of fictional ships