Length o.a.: 123.9 feet (37,76 m)

Beam: 28.6 feet (8,71 m)

Draft: 14.9 feet (4,54 m)

Displacement: 693 t

Builder: Spedden Shipbuilding Company, Baltimore (MD)

Year of construction: 1901

Contact price: 79,872 $

Material: steel hull

Sister vessels: same hull plan as for LV 72

Engine: steam engine, 400 IHP

Illumination: 2 laterns, each with 8 oil lamps with reflectors

Fog signal: steam whistle and hand operated bell

Radio and visual call sign: NMGB (1940-1944)

History

1902-1913	Pollock Rip Shoals (MA)
June 8, 1913	took aboard 2 men who had been adrift and lost in fog for 3 days from fishing schooner WASHAKIE
1913-1923	Pollock Rip Slue (MA)
1923-1924	Pollock Rip (MA)
1924-1944	Vineyard Sound (MA)
September 14, 1944	Sunk in a hurricane while on station with loss of 12 crewmen, according to John Perry Fish of American Underwater Search and Survey the wreck was later located at position 41'23.856 N, 71'01.115 W, salvage never attempted The following twelve men were lost in the sinking of the Vineyard Lightship during the hurricane of 1944: Vangel Constantine Joseph George Gordon Jack M. Hammett Allen Leslie Hull John Kolozsky Peter Paul Michalak Lawrence Roland Starratt Edgar Sevigny Edward Walter Steckling Frederick Julius Stelter John Joseph Stimac Richard Talbot
September 15, 1999	The fog signal bell of the lightship which was recovered by divers in 1963 is now part of the US Lightship Memorial in New Bedford (MA) If anyone knows other interesting details, I would be grateful for an e-mail.