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United States lightship Portsmouth (LV-101)
American lightvessel, launched 1916 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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United States Lightship 101, now known as Portsmouth as a museum ship, was first stationed at Cape Charles, Virginia. Today she is at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. Portsmouth never had a lightship station; however, when the vessel was dry docked there as a museum, she took on the pseudonym Portsmouth. A National Historic Landmark, she is one of a small number of surviving lightships.[5]
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Builder | Pusey & Jones |
Laid down | 1915 |
Launched | 12 January 1916[1] |
Acquired | 2 September 1916 |
Decommissioned | 23 March 1964 |
In service | 1916 |
Out of service | 1963 |
Identification |
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Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lightship |
Displacement | 360 long tons (366 t) |
Length | 101 ft 10 in (31.04 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 4 in (3.45 m) |
Propulsion | Meitz & Weiss 4-cylinder kerosene engine, 200 hp (149 kW) 1944: Cooper-Bessemer 315HP Six Cylinder Diesel |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (4 Cylinder) 8.2 knots (15.2 km/h; 9.4 mph) (6 Cylinder) |
Armament | None |
Lightship No. 101, Portsmouth | |
Location | Portsmouth, Virginia |
Coordinates | 36°50′19″N 76°17′55″W |
Built | 1916 |
Architect | Pusey & Jones Lightship; US Lighthouse Establishment |
NRHP reference No. | 89001080[2] |
VLR No. | 124-0102 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | 5 May 1989 |
Designated NHL | 5 May 1989[3] |
Designated VLR | March 19, 1997[4] |
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