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United States lightship LV-117
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''LV-117'' was a lightvessel of the United States Lighthouse Service. Launched in 1931, she operated as the Nantucket lightship south of Nantucket Shoals. Moored south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, the lightship was at the western part of the transatlantic shipping lane and the first lightship encountered by westbound liners approaching New York Harbor. On May 15, 1934, one of these liners, RMS ''Olympic'', rammed and sank ''LV-117'', killing seven of her crew.
==Description==
''LV-117'' was a steel-hulled vessel with steel deckhouses fore and aft, a funnel amidships for engine exhaust, and two masts. An electric lantern topped each mast, and an electric foghorn was on the mainmast. Four diesel engines drove generators, providing power for both the signalling apparatus and a electric propulsion motor. Her sister vessels were ''San Francisco'' LV-100, ''Swiftsure'' LV-113, ''New Bedford'' LV-114, ''Frying Pan'' LV-115, and ''Chesapeake'' LV-116.〔
She was stationed south of the Nantucket Shoals in a location south by east from Sankaty Head Lighthouse on Nantucket Island. The vessel was described at the time as "the newest thing in lightships, a great advance over the sailing vessels that stood watch ... for over seventy years." She was moored in by diameter steel chain cables attached to a pair of anchors.〔Chirnside (2004) p. 124〕
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