 Lightship Ambrose (WLV 613) | | Career |
 | | Launched: | August 4, 1952 | | | Commissioned: | September 12, 1952 | | | Decomissioned: | December 20, 1983 | | | Fate: | Museum ship | | | | General characteristics | | Displacement: | 130 tons | | | Length: | 128 ft (42 m) | | | Beam: | 30 ft (10 m) | | | Draft: | 11 (3.3 m) | | | Propulsion: | Detroit - Quad, 550 Hp | | | Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h) | Lightship Ambrose served as the sentinal beacon marking Ambrose Channel, the main shipping channel for New York Harbor, from 1823 until the station was replaced by Ambrose Lightstation, a Texas Tower, in 1967. Between 1823 and 1967 several ships were commissioned Lightship Ambrose and served at the station. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (999x813, 45 KB) Summary USCG photograph Licensing This image is a work of a United States Coast Guard employee, taken or made during the course of an employees official duties. ...
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Ambrose Lightstation Ambrose Channel is the main shipping canal between the ports of New York and Boston. ...
New York Harbor is a geographic trem that refers collectively to the bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson and adjacent rivers in the vicinity of New York City. ...
Ambrose Lightstation, rebuilt in 1999. ...
The Texas Towers were a set of off-shore radar facilities used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War that were modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast. ...
The Lightship Ambrose (LV87), built 1908, served its station until 1933 when she was reassigned to serve as the Lightship Scotland, a station much closer to Sandy Hook, New Jersey. In 1968, the U.S. Coast Guard gifted the ship to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City where it remains birthed and can be visited by the public. Image of Sandy Hook taken by NASA. Sandy Hook is a narrow coastal spit of land, approximately 12 mi (19 km) in length and 0. ...
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In 1952, the Lightship Ambrose (WLV 613) was commissioned and became the last lightship to mark the Ambrose Channel when she was replaced by a Texas Tower lightstation on August 24, 1967. She was reassigned as a relief ship on the Massachusettes coastline from 1967–75. And finally, after being renamed Nantucket II, she was reassigned to Nantucket Shoals, where she alternated with her sister ship, the Lightship Nantucket (WLV 612), relieving each other approximately every 21 days, until 1983. This vessel is now a museum ship in Boston Harbor.
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