LV112 Nantucket crew recollections

Posted for our lightship veteran Hal . . .

Nice article about LV112 Nantucket in the recent news email from the National Trust for Historic Preservation

former crew interview

Would have been interesting to have some more on the topic.

Dave
Great story and brought back a lot of memorys for me. It was very true of what each of them said about life on a lightship. I was stationed on the Scotland lightship which is located off Sandy Hook NJ and about 5 miles west of the Ambrose lightship. So there were 2 lightships when entering New York harbor.
I remember one time the fog would not let up and we had the fog horn on for 6 straight days without a break.As a crew member you can usualy tune out the noise of the fog horn but after 6 straight days everybody was getting short tempered and were hard to get along. Finaly the fog lifted a little bit and we shut the fog horn off. Everybody was out on the deck enjoying the fresh air butit only lasted about an hour and we had to turn the horn back on. But is finaly cleared up and everybody was happy. It is weird sometimes you can go 2 weeks without the fog horn. That is one of my stories and I will post another later. I finished up my enlistment stationed on the Overfalls lightship which was located in the Delaware Bay
breakwater off of Lewes De.
Hal

Glad you saw this, Hal. Will look forward to more stories.

Hal,
Thanks for that little tidbit. Would love to hear some more about life on a lightship.

Hal - I would also like to hear more about lightship duty as all 23 years in the Coast Guard were either WHECs, LORAN, SAR stations or CG Headquarters. I contacted you by email to ask you a question so if you would please answer I would appreciate an answer.

Enjoyed the lightship stories Dave and Hal.
It opened my eyes up to how it was on a lightship.

Hal do you have any stories of being hit or almost hit by another ship?

To give everyone a sneak peek on the upcoming Volume 6 that I'm working on, Hal has told me that he will write an article for Volume 6 depicting life on board a lightship.

You'll have to wait for January to see the article so hopefully Hal won't divulge too much here on life on the lightship.