The Nantucket a historic Lightship

a have featured shots of this ship The Nantucket in post previously, but after reading up a bit about it and plus the fact that have many photos of it I felt it warranted a post on its own

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The Nantucket is a lightship and designated United States lightship (WLV-613)

Now you may wonder what a lightship is, well maybe you don't but I did so let me tall you, it is a vessel that operates basically as a lighthouse tower to assist ships in navigation, so it can be moved to where a lighthouse is needed for the safety of ships.

I read up on it, and is one of two that were at one stage in New bedford, the second one WLV-613is now in Boston Harbor ( another reason I must visit Boston)

She was commissioned in 1952 and was the last lightship to mark the Ambrose Channel eventually replaced by a Texas Tower lightstation on 24 August 1967.

She( you do call a ship a she don't you ) served as a relief ship on the Massachusetts coastline from 1967–79.after that she was assigned in 1979 to Nantucket Shoals the lightship alternated with her sister ship, the Lightship WLV-612, relieving each other approximately every 21 days as the Nantucket lightship.
The Nantucket was the last lightship to mark the Nantucket channel on 20 December 1983. She was decommissioned and retired in 1983.

After that she was berthed at the Wareham Shipyard along Main Street in Wareham, Massachusetts from about 1990 until she was moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts on December 1, 2014. The vessel which was at this time painted with the Nantucket on its side is now privately owned by William B. Golden and Kristen Golden, they also owned the WLV-612 which i mentioned above is now in Boston.
She is not currently open to the public

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An interesting side note I found on a website is apparently the Lighship was sold on ebay by Auction, but i could not find out how much it sold for

These shots are taken on different days I have walked down byt he docks, this next one as the sun was rising

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And another morning looking straight on the front of it

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Now I did try a couple of mono edits of the ship, but didnt really felt they fitted with this post and with the rich red of the ship hull, I decided to try a selective color image to finish off the post