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Nantucket South Shoals Light Vessel

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Color:

Material:

Tonnage:

How Rigged:

Daymarks:

Number of Lights:

How Placed:

Illuminating Apparatus:

Number of Burners:

Lantern Hoist:

Red, with "Nantucket Shoals" white letters each side.

Live oak timbers & locust knees - yellow pine planking; white pine decks.

360

schooner

Red hoop iron oval gratings at right angles

On foremast & mainmast

11 - 12" reflectors

Same as Minot's light vessel

General Info

How Moored:

Weight of Anchor:

Size of Riding Chain:

Number of Spare Anchors:

Weight of Spare Anchors:

Number of Spare Chains:

Length of Spare Chains:

Working or Harbor Anchor:

Mushroom anchor w/ swivel & 1 3/4" chain

450 barrels

130 fams, 1 3/4"

3500 & 1000

75 fams 1 3/4 & 70 fams 1 1/8"

Moorings

Sails:

Awnings:

Mainsail, foresail, jib, flying jib, squaresail, Boat's mainsail & jib

2 awnings, quarterdeck & forecastle

Sails / Awnings

Coal / Fuel on Board:

Water:

9 tons capacity

6000 gal (tanks) cap.

Stowage

Keeper and Crew Quarters:

2 staterooms in cabin, 2 berths in each; 12 berths for crew on berth deck.

Quarters