Recent Event Highlights: Floating lighthouse seeks harbor to call home - San Francisco Chronicle, Local man saves Nantucket's lightship - The Daily News of Newburyport, Nantucket Lightship arrives1, Nantucket lightship returns to Mass. waters - Cape Cod Times, Oldest US lightship comes home to Boston, R/C Nantucket lightship test run, and 14 more...
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Floating lighthouse seeks harbor to call homeSan Francisco ChronicleThe San Francisco lightship was replaced by a large buoy more than 35 years ago, and the last lightship of all sailed away from its station off Nantucket ...
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Local man saves Nantucket's lightshipThe Daily News of NewburyportFor Mannino, who just last week towed the lightship back to its home port of Boston from Oyster Bay, NY, making the Nantucket Lightship relevant again has ...
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Nantucket Lightship arrives Boston
Nantucket lightship returns to Mass. watersCape Cod TimesThe Nantucket Lightship LV-112 in New York waters over a decade ago. The lightship is making its way back to Massachusetts today. ...and more »
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...nearly 40 years, the Nantucket Lightship LV-112 shone the way home, guiding countless ships past the treacherous Nantucket Shoals. But after it was decommissioned in the 1970s, the vessel bounced from port to port like a vagabond, unable to find safe harbor. Under...
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Boston Globe
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test run of the lindberg model nantucket lightship. works good, now to finish and post more videos.
Visit artstudiosecrets.com to download the whole movie for $9. A start-to-finish demonstration by artist Cindy Procious, showing her technique for painting a Nantucket Basket.
First demonstration of the Nantucket Bagg
Here's my sixteenth Thomas/TUGS Parody clip and my last one from the episode, Sunshine. Parodies 1-16 put together are the Thomas/TUGS Parody FL of Sunshine. My Cast for Thomas/TUGS Parodies: Thomas as Ten Cents Henry as Big Mac Edward as OJ Spencer as Top Hat Gordon as Warrior Murdoch as Hercules Percy as Sunshine The Fat Controller as Captain Star Diesel as Zorran Arry as Zebedee Bert as Zak Dodge as Zug Splatter as Zip The Barber as Captain Zero Toby as Grampus Mavis as Lillie Lightship Emily as Sally Seaplane Bill as Frank Ben as Eddie Diesel 10 as Johnny Cuba Pichy as Jack George as Bluenose Duck as Puffa Donald as The Coast Gaurd Douglas as Coast Gaurd's Messanger Oliver as The Goods Engine James as Billy Shoepack Boco as Fire Tug Dennis as Izzy Gomez Salty as Sea Rogue Duke as Sea Rogue's Uncle Boomer as Boomer Jimmy and Zak (some made-up NG Diesels) as Pirates D261 as Nantucket Hiro as Old Rusty Old Slow Coach as Pearl Trucks as Shrimpers Cranky as Big Mickey Rocky as Mighty Moe Harvey as Little Ditcher Butch as Scuttlebutt Boulder as Krakatoa The Royal Train as Duchess Chinese Dragon, Ghost Percy, Flour Covered Thomas and Ghost Engine as the Ghost Tugs Tom Tipper as Garbage Depot Manager The Quarry Master as Workman Lady as The Princess Alice Hector as Lord Stinker Workman as The Quarry Master Footage: HIT Entertainment Audio: Clearwater features Disclaimer: I own nothing
Harbormaster Tom Leach caught this short video while visiting the Nantucket Light Ship LV-612 in port at Vineyard Haven, Massachussetts. Tom was invited guest to speak on the "Lightships of Nantucket Sound to the Tisbury Barnacle Club.
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...in the military police at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, located at that time in Paris. On Wednesday night, the Lightship Nantucket - the vessel that marked limits of the dangerous Nantucket Shoals in Massachusetts for more than 150 years - pulled...
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...dusk fell, the lightship Nantucket lit up the area where Kennedy's sailboat, Mya, was moored. The Kennedy family was holding a vigil this evening at their Hyannis Port compound, grieving but also celebrating the life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Senator John...
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Boston Globe
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...FUN DAY The museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary and renovation with a grand reopening featuring storytelling, a lightship basket-weaving demonstration, and lots of activities. Aug. 23 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5, $3 for ages 5-18, free under 5. Nantucket...
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I was inspired by YamatoTitanic's Britannic video here: www.youtube.com Rest in Peace Titanic, Britannic, Olympic, and Nantucket Lightship 117. ... Titanic Britannic Olympic YamatoTitanic mattt5677
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...it will get the big 4th of July Fireworks show, and it turns out, it even has its own floating hotel. The Nantucket Lightship, which is docked downtown in the North Cove Marina behind the World Financial Center, has been completely refitted and renovated and...
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NewYorkology
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Nantucket Summer Vacation last two weeks of August. Perfect Weather.
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...historic Nantucket Lightship helped countless boats reach safe harbor, and now it can be had for $1. But there are few takers. That's because it will likely cost more than $150,000 to relocate and restore the 1,000-ton vessel. The National Lighthouse Museum,...
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Boston Globe
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...and waited, but now we have to take action," he said. "The reality is, we've worn out our welcome." In its glory days, the lightship Nantucket was anchored about 50 miles off Nantucket, at the outer fringes of a range of shoals that threatened trans-Atlantic...
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Here is a collection of shots about the Lightship Nantucket
Harwich Harbormaster Tom Leach has accumulated this collection of Lightship photographs to go with a talk that he presents occasionally on these Sentinels. They are long gone Hankerchief removed in 1951 after 97 years of service,then Pollock Rip replaced by an Ocean Buoy in 1969 after 120 years and Stone Horse Lightship (1852-1969) a victim of lack of need due to reduced traffic, superior navigation by LORAN. Nantucket Lightship served 1854-1983 while Cross Rip lasted 1828-1963. Still these legends lasted and saved countless lives. At its peak 60000 ships past by Pollock Rip Lightship in a single year carrying, food and supplies. The victim of the Cape Cod Canal, the railroad and later the teamster transportation of the trucking industy that made the practicallity of coastal shipping ineffective. Tom has put these pictures to familiar music in a moving tribiute ending with "Semper Paratus", 'alway ready', theme anthem of the Coast Guard. Hundreds of ships came to grief in this period. Ships wrecks many of which can sill be found on the bottom are included in this clip, they are in order: ALVA, EDWARD E BRIERY, WYOMMING, ALICE M LAWRENCE, HORATIO HALL, ARANSAS. FORT MERCER, JENNIE POTTER FRENCH, KATE HARDING, LAKAWANA, SAGAMORE... also shown are the schooner barges which were once a familiar sight and the source of the Monomy Disaster the USLSS greatess tradgety close by the Shovelful Lightship. Lightships were named for the shoal that they designated.
A group of eight women, most in their 40s and 50s, find new challenges and friendship in the traditional craft of weaving Nantucket Lightship baskets in Duxbury.
For hundreds of years sailing ships were the tractor trailers of their day carrying goods, lumber, fuel (coal) and people north and south along the eastern seaboard from Boston to New York and beyond. In its prime, a steady stream of sailing and later steam driven ships passed the "backside" of Cape Cod. This ongoing report is being conducted to pull as much information together on lightships, shipping and what impact these may have had on Harwich Port. Google: Lightships of Nantucket Sound ...
With the summer fast approaching, people are starting to make their summer vacation or weekend plans. One perennial favorite is a trip to the far away island of Nantucket. Most people remark that their first impression of the island is that it's like taking a trip back in time with all the beautifully restored antique homes and signature cobblestone streets. Chef Angela Rainer The Pearl Nantucket, MA www.boardinghouse-pearl.com When people think of architecture on Nantucket, the name Lyman ...
Tall Ship and Nantucket LightSHip at Jakobsen SHipyard. Jakobsen Shipyard closed and is now a park. ... lightship sailboat kayak oyster bay
Close to the old Nantucket Light Ship, a floating lighthouse, now docked at the old Jakobsen Shipyard. The Jakobsen shipyard has become a museum and park now. ... sailboat lightship lighthouse kayak oyster bay
My parents went to Nantucket in 1950. Here is the home movie footage they shot. Included are leaving a harbor (New Bedford?), arriving and departing Nantucket, a visit to the oldest house (Jethro Coffin house?), golfing, swimming in the surf, and the lightship Crossrip.
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...ships around perilous shallows 50 miles off Nantucket. Now, the floating lighthouse needs a savior of its own. The lightship Nantucket, built in 1936, has been passed from one nonprofit owner to another since it was retired in 1975. Most recently, it was acquired...
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/12/09/for_1_right_buyers_could_give_landmark_lightship_a_home?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News
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...Nantucket and shop for dainty lightship baskets. Now they can buy an entire 600-ton lightship. This summer, the 128-foot-long Nantucket Lightship is for sale: by the week, month or whole season, from mid-May through mid-October. For the right price, the ship...
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New York Times Travel
http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/travel/escapes/01light.html
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