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» Light Vessel LV 73
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1901 and lost, with all hands on board, during the 1944 hurricane.
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV73.pdf

» Light Vessel No. 2
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1849 and stationed in various points off the Massachusetts Coast from 1849-19207. She is said to have been named "General Taylor" when launched, and later referred to as "Pollock Rip" prior to 1867 when her designation
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV2.asp

» Light Vessel No. 3
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1852 and stationed in various points off the Massachusetts Coast from 1852-1923. She is said to have been named "Old Hickory" when launched. She was retired from lightship duty in 1924 at the age of 72.
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV3.asp

» Light Vessel No. 41
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1876 and stationed in various points off the Massachusetts Coast from 1876-1933. On April 29, 1923, she took aboard 21 survivors from the S.S. Seaconnet which sank one mile south of the lightship, with loss of seven cre
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV41.asp

» Light Vessel No. 42
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1877 and stationed in various points off the Massachusetts Coast from 1877-1932. She was retired from lightship duty in 1931. In 1940, she was burned at Apple Island in Boston Harbor as part of the Fourth of July celebr
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV42.asp

» Light Vessel No. 5
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1864 and stationed in various points off the Massachusetts Coast from 1862-1918. During her years of duty, she suffered numerous collisions with passing vessels. She was retired from lightship duty in 1930 at the age of
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV5.asp

» Light Vessel No. 6
   U.S. Coast Guard lightship built in 1855 and stationed in various points off the Massachusetts Coast from 1862-1918. In 1918, she was reported drifting in moving ice and was last seen moving out of the eastern entrance to Nantucket Sound. All hands on boa
   http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblightships/LV6.pdf