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^[1]
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^[1]
- 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^[2]

References

^ ^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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[danfs-1] "Nantucket II (Light Ship)". DANFS. Naval History and Heritage Command, US Navy. August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2023.

[2] "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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