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Technical
data
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Length: 128
feet (ca. 39 m)
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| Beam:
30 feet (ca. 9.14 m) |
| Draught:
11 feet (ca. 3.35 m) |
| Displacement:
630 tons |
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Builder: Defoe
Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan, USA
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Year of construction:
1946
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| Material:
steel hull and deckhouses; 2 masts, smokestack amidships |
| Sister
vessels: WLV 196 |
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| Radio
and visual call sign NMJH (1946-1971) |
History
| October
16, 1946 |
launched
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| November
1946 |
commissioned
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| 1947-1958 |
Station Pollock
Rip (MA)
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| 1958-1960 |
Nantucket
Shoals (MA)
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| 1961-1971 |
Umatilla Reef
(WA)
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| September
30, 1971 |
decomissioned
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| 2005 |
The lightship is privately owned and used as berthing for loggers
on the north end of Pennock Island, just off Ketchikan, Alaska.
It is painted white, name MARINE BIO RESEARCHER
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| August
2007 |
The ship was
moved to a position just north of Lewis Reef north of the Ketchikan
Airport
If anyone
has news, I would be grateful for an e-mail.
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