Length: 148 feet 10 inches (ca. 45,36 m)

Beam: 32 feet (ca. 9.80 m)

Draft: 16 feet 3 inches (ca. 4.95 m)

Displacement: 1050 tons

Builder: Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Year of construction: 1936

Cost: 300.956 $

Material: steel

Sister vessels: none

Propulsion: steam engine, 1960 converted to diesel

Speed: 12 knots

Illumination apparatus: 500 mm electric lens on each mast

Radio and visual call sign NMGZ (1940-1975)

History

1936	the largest lightship ever built in the United States was launched
1936-1942	Nantucket Shoals (MA)
1942-1945	painted battleship gray, armed with a 3-inch-gun and used as an examination vessel in Portland, Maine during WWII
1945-1954	Nantucket Shoals (MA)
September 14th, 1954	hurricane Edna struck the lightship
1954-1958	Nantucket Shoals (MA)
1958-1959	Relief
January 5th, 1959	blown 80 miles off station in hurricane force winds
1959-1960	Relief
1960-1975	Nantucket Shoals (MA)
March 28th, 1975	decomissioned and laid up in Chelsea
1975-1985	owned by the Nantucket Historical Association and operated as a museum in Nantucket Harbour
1985-1989	sold to Nantucket Lightship Perservation Inc. and used as floating museum in Portland, Maine
1993	the Intrepid Air-Sea Museum New York City required the lightship
1997	donated to H.M.S. Rose Foundation, Bridgeport, CT
2002	H.M.S. Rose Foundation sold the lightship for 1 $ to the National Lighthouse Museum who tried to establish a museum on the Staten Island waterfront
2003-2009	docked at the Jakobson Pier at Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
October 20th, 2009	Today Jerry Roberts (National Lighthouse Museum) and Robert Mannino jr. (United States Lightship Museum) signed transfer papers for the lightship. The ship is still anchored at Oyster Bay. Plans are to move the ship to Boston and to restore it. An estimated $175,000 to $250,000 is initially needed to begin restoration and stabilize the ship from further deterioration. If everyone who reads this website would donate even a small amount of money, that goal could be reached. For further information please visit the website of the United States Lightship Museum. If anyone has news, I would be grateful for an e-mail.