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33163. (lot) U.S. Coast Guard Lightship / Cutter Disposition Documents c.1955.

6507p. [blanket] U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE WOOL BLANKET. c.1900.

33139. U.S. Light House Establishment Sextant by Hurlimann Paris.

D-16. U. S. Light-House Service Medicine Chest c.1900-1938

33137. (photo) Light Vessel No. 11 Scotland Retired at Staten Island c.1925.

33138. (lot 9 glass slides) United States Lighthouse Service Related Glass Projection Lantern Slides c.1910.

33110. (souvenir coin) Lightship LV-605 by U.S. Lighthouse Society.

C21180. [retouched digital copy print]. U. S. Lightship Second LH District. c.1880-90

24120. [newspaper] PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING A VESSEL TO BE USED AS A FLOATING LIGHT IN LONG ISLAND SOUND. New York Times. July 22, 1837.

20504. Maxwell, Perriton. WATCH-DOG’S OF THE SEA – The Light-Ships of Nantucket Sound and Those Who Man Them. Harper’s Weekly. May 7, 1910.

23516. LIGHTHOUSES FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA. Once a Week. October 13, 1894.

2050. Assistant Engineer Hamilton, U. S. Lightship Portland. Life Magazine. November 15, 1937

23520. (article) For Great Safety at Sea. Nantucket Lightship No. 112. Scientific American. July 1935.

26136b. End of [Lightship] No. 117. Time Magazine. Mar 28, 1934.

7383. (adhesive decal) Nantucket Lightship

799. Bachelder, Peter Dow. THE LIGHTHOUSES & LIGHTSHIPS OF CASCO BAY. Cape Elizabeth, ME. 1995

24360. na. LIGHT-BOATS OR LIGHT-SHIPS. The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States. New York. 1857.

6400. (document) Light-Boat at Smith’s Point, Virginia. January 7, 1843.

9300. Noble, Dennis. THE COAST GUARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. USCG Bicentennial Publication. Wash. c.1988.

2523. [lot] British lightships and lighthouses

1266. na. Stonehorse Lightship (LV-101 / WAL-524) Plan & Photo Feature. Model Ship Journal. Vol. 1, No. 2. Winter 2000-2001.

2674b. (set of slides). Portsmouth, Five Fathom, Barnegat, Huron Lightships c.1970’s.

14307. (color lithograph) THE LIGHTSHIP by Edward Moran. Copyright 1894 by Montague Marks, New York.

32158. (photo) Cross Rip Lightship LV-47 c.1923.

32150. (lot 2 photos) Lightship Swiftsure Bank LV113 / WAL 535 on Station c.1939.

32135. (lot 4 photos) Lightships Nantucket, Columbia, Relief, Diamond.

31092. (photo) Ambrose Lightship WLV-613 at Caddell Dry Dock & Repair c.1953.

15218. Richmond, Arthur P. Massachusetts Lighthouses and Lightships. Schiffer. 2013

15228. Richmond, Arthur P. Lighthouses and Lightships of Rhode Island. Schiffer. 2015

6697. Thompson, Frederic L., THE LIGHTSHIPS OF CAPE COD. 1996.

957-21. [lightship model] Nantucket [Relief] Lightship No. 112. WAL 534. Pyro Plastics Corp.

9479e. LIGHT BOAT AT MINOT’S LEDGE. Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. July 12, 1851.

25371. A LIGHTSHIP ADRIFT by Walter Wood

4678. 21509. na. U. S. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE. Fortune Magazine January 1937

23387a. PLAN & DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR BUILDING A TRUE SCALE MODEL ILLUMINATING [BRITISH] LIGHTSHIP

2035. na. CREWLESS LIGHTSHIP IS NEW ‘FLYING DUTCHMAN’

23312. Cipra, David L., LIGHTHOUSES & LIGHTSHIPS OF THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. Alexandria. 1997.

3164. Kobbe’, Gustav. “LIFE ON THE ( Nantucket ) SOUTH SHOAL LIGHT-SHIP”.

C2224. Sibley, John. LIFE ABOARD THE AMBROSE LIGHTSHIP

C8498. Johnson, Robert. HARD TIMES ON THE FIRST SOUTH SHOALS LIGHT VESSEL

C23161. White, Richard D. Jr., WHEN LIGHTSHIPS WATCHED OVER VIRGINIA WATERS. Virginia Cavalcade. Summer 1980.

C23110. Stokes, Ted. ESCAPE BY LAND LIGHTSHIP NO. 50

C22316. Anthony, Richard H., NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP – This Offshore Guardian of Our Coast Is the World’s Most Exposed Lightvessel

C23117. [Light-House Service] SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE SINGLE-SCREW, STEEL, DIESEL-PROPELLED SECOND-CLASS LIGHTSHIP “No. 118”

C98336. Lighthouse Service. DESCRIPTION OF LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE VESSEL, FORM 40. FIRE ISLAND LIGHTSHIP #114, 3RD LIGHTHOUSE DISTRICT

C15131. U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Light-House Establishment. Description and Inventory of Light-Vessel No. 85

C98337. Light-House Board. DESCRIPTION OF THE UNITED STATES LIGHT-VESSEL NO. 85 [ NANTUCKET SHOALS], AND FIXTURES, WITH LIST OF OUTFITS ON BOARD, STATIONED IN THE SECOND LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT

C7197kkk. [newspaper] LIGHTSHIP CREW’S PERILOUS VOYAGE – Forced to Bail From Ram Island Light to Port to Prevent Sinking

C21290. Cook, George Crouse. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LIGHTSHIP

C22191. na. THE AMBROSE CHANNEL LIGHTSHIP – New Vessel Takes the Place of the Familiar Old Sandy Hook Lightship

C22379. [newspaper] Proposals for Light-House on Robbin’s Reef in the Harbor of New York, and second Proposal for Building a Vessel to be used as a Floating Light [lightship] off Sandy Hook

C25157. Mont , A. R., A LIGHTSHIP MAKES A UNIQUE MODEL

25234. Cram, Hal. CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SURROUNDS THE LIGHTSHIP. Sun Up – Maine’s Own Magazine. December 1925.

C26136. End of [Lightship] No. 117. Time Magazine

C2694. Bradford, Gershom. THE LIGHTSHIP – She Furnishes to the Mariner a Definitely Marked Position

C23111. [newspaper] OLD SANDY HOOK LIGHTSHIP TO GO. New York Herald

C2084. H. R. Doc. No. 32. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN RELATION TO THE REMOVAL OF THE LIGHT VESSEL FROM BRANDYWINE SHOAL TO TUCKERNUCK SHOAL

C23107. U.S. Light-House Establishment. PLANS U. S. LIGHT VESSEL NO. 80 COLUMBIA .. c.1909

C7226. H. R. Doc. No. 602. NEW LIGHT VESSEL FOR THE FIFTH LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT

C20189. H. R. Report No. 157. LIGHT VESSEL NEAR ORFORD REEF, OREGON

C8284. Ridgely-Nevitt, Cedric. A LIGHT-VESSEL OF 1823 BUILT BY HENRY ECKFORD

C22440. U.S. Light-House Establishment. PLANS U. S. LIGHT VESSEL No. 113, WAL-535. c.1940’s

C22191. na. THE AMBROSE CHANNEL LIGHTSHIP – New Vessel Takes the Place of the Familiar Old Sandy Hook Lightship

C22441. U.S. Light-House Establishment. PLANS U. S. LIGHT VESSEL WAL-605. c.1960’s

C23107. U.S. Light-House Establishment. PLANS U. S. LIGHT VESSEL NO. 80 COLUMBIA

C22436. U.S. Light-House Establishment. PLANS U. S. LIGHT VESSEL NO. 83. c.1903.

C2346. U.S. Light-House Establishment. PLANS U. S. LIGHT VESSEL NO. 50. c.1899

27296. Kirklin, Wayne. LIGHTSHIPS: Floating Lighthouses Of The Mid-Atlantic. History Press. 2007

22379. [newspaper] Proposals for Light-House on Robbin’s Reef in the Harbor of New York, and second Proposal for Building a Vessel to be used as a Floating Light [lightship] off Sandy Hook

4268. (na) POLICEMEN OF THE SEA. 16pp. Harpers New Monthly Magazine

9377. H. R. Report No. 3628. LIGHT-SHIP WITH A FOG-SIGNAL AT SANDY HOOK

24283. H. R. Rep. No. 672. INJURIES INCURRED MOORING LIGHT-SHIP OFF SANDY HOOK

23117. [Light-House Service] SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE SINGLE-SCREW, STEEL, DIESEL-PROPELLED SECOND-CLASS LIGHTSHIP “No. 118”

22361. Commemorative Coast Guard, Lighthouse and Lightship Covers 1930 – 1970’s.