List of ships named Nantucket

A number of ships have been named Nantucket, after the island off the Massachusetts coast, including the following:

Naval vessels
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 * USS Nantucket (1862), a Passaic-class coastal monitor that served in the Union during the American Civil War, and sold in 1900
 * USS Nantucket (IX-18), built in 1876 as USS Ranger and served as Nantucket from 1918 to 1942, as a gunboat and then a survey/school ship
 * USS Nantucket (SP-1153), an 1899-built coastal passenger steamer taken up in 1917, but found unsuitable for naval service and returned to her owner
 * USS Nantucket (LCS-27), a planned Freedom-class littoral combat ship, launched in 2021
 * USCGC Nantucket (WPB-1316), an Island-class patrol boat launched in 1987, and reported transferred to Ukraine in 2018

Ferry service

 * The ferry to Nantucket island has been operated by many vessels, including:
 * Nantucket, a sidewheel steam ferry in service 1886 to 1910
 * Nantucket, the former Nobska, in service 1928 to 1956
 * Nantucket, in service 1957 to 1974
 * Nantucket, in service since 1974

Lightships

 * "Nantucket"is a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least eleven individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including:
 * LV-58 (1894-1896)
 * LV-85 (1907-1923), under US Navy control 1917-1919
 * LV-117 (1930-1934)
 * LV-112 (for periods between 1936 and 1975), now preserved in Boston, Massachusetts
 * WLV-613 (1967-1983)
 * WLV-612 (1975-1983) (last two latterly alternating)

Other ships

 * Nantucket (1837), a whaling ship, wrecked in 1859
 * Nantucket Clipper, a 1984-built cruise ship, later trading as Spirit of Nantucket