I was just on Flickr, trying to find info on Lightship Ten in London, which I want to visit in April. I put those terms into the Flickr search engine, and clicked on the first photo, "Lightship (10)."

Instead of seeing a European ship, however, I saw the sinking of an American lightship, LV-84/Relief. The photos are here: http://flickr.com/photos/harvenyc/sets/72057594129594392/. It sank in Red Hook, Brooklyn in the mid-90s, and is still there today according to the Google map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safar...m=1&sa=N&tab=wl

If you go from the green arrow to the end of Richards St, then look on the northwest side of the thin pier there, you'll see the twin white masts of the lightship, still sitting on the bottom.

I'm going to have to check this out. It's only a few blocks from the passenger pier in Red Hook, so maybe I'll combine it with a QM2 visit one day.