Service / USCG Buoy Depot, now occupied by Eastern Minerals as a storage and docking port. The depot was used as a servicing facility for buoys, lightships, and lighthouse tenders. LV-112 was routinely serviced there while it was a commissioned USCG floating lighthouse. At 150 feet in length, Nantucket LV-112 is the largest US lightship
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Nantucket Lightship LV-112 being towed to dry dock in Boston Harbor. ever built; she operated out of the USCGBase Boston from 1936–75. The USLM was formed in 2009 as a non-profit organization to rescue the ship from being scrapped after many years of neglect in Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, and returned the ship to Boston Harbor in 2010. Much of the USLM’s support has come from many volunteers and generous contributions from individuals, corporations, and private foundations. An additional $1.8 million is needed to fulfill Nantucket LV112’s next phase of restoration. A National Historic Landmark, the ship has been berthed along the East Boston waterfront where she serves the general public as a museum and floating learning center. (www.NantucketLightshipLV-112.org) … Thanks to a National Park Service Maritime Heritage Grant, the historic 1944 destroyer escort USS Slater recently completed a $700,000 overhaul at Caddell Dry Dock & Repair Company on Staten Island. The ship is now back at its home base in Albany, New York, where it serves as the centerpiece of the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum (DEHM). The grant covered the first $200,000, with the balance of the shipyard costs funded by donors. At Caddell, all post-WWII modifications to the mast were removed. It was then hydroblasted, and repainted with three coats of PSX-700 Epoxy. Parts researched and fabricated prior to the shipyard departure included the mast ladder, the vertical “fighting lights,” TBS radio antenna, IFF
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