After seven months in a Chelsea dry dock undergoing extensive restorations and maintenance the Nantucket Lightship has returned to its home port along East Boston’s Waterfront near Piers Park.
Since 2009, Eastie has played host to this national treasure and now the giant red lightship is docked back on Marginal Street at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina after months of work.
The historic Nantucket Lightship , also known as Lightship No. 112 or simply LV-112, recently left a Chelsea dry dock after seven months of restoration.
“For the second time since 2011-12, LV-112 was relaunched from the historic Fitzgerald Shipyard in Chelsea after slightly more than seven months of a major and comprehensive $1.4 million structural restoration,” said leader of the ship’s museum, the U.S. Lightship Museum (USLM), Robert Mannino, Jr. “Mostly implemented inside the bow section, the restoration included rebuilding the anchor manger, the forward port and starboard ballast tanks,