USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is the third of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, they took advantage of an escalator clause that allowed increasing the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns, but refusal to authorize larger battleships kept their displacement close to the Washington limit of 35,000 long tons (36,000 t). A requirement to be armored against the same caliber of guns as they carried, combined with the displacement restriction, resulted in cramped ships, a problem that was exacerbated by wartime modifications that considerably strengthened their anti-aircraft batteries and significantly increased their crews.
Fall River Light House
Fishing fleet in New Bedford, MA
Mock-up of a typical whaling ship.
Whaling Museum
New Bedford MA, Typical Street views
New Bedford MA, Typical Street views
New Bedford MA, Typical Street views
New Bedford MA, Typical Street views
54th Regement Mass. Infantry Plaza
New Bedford Customs House. Was used to collect taxes on goods passing thru the port.
New Bedford MA, Typical Street views
New Bedford fishing fleet
The station named Nantucket or Nantucket Shoals was served by a number of lightvessels (also termed lightships) that marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island. The vessels, given numbers as their "name," had the station name painted on their hulls when assigned to the station. Several ships have been assigned to the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket. It was common for a lightship to be reassigned and then have the new station name painted on the hull. The Nantucket station was a significant US lightship station for transatlantic voyages. Established in 1854, the station marked the limits of the dangerous Nantucket Shoals. She was the last lightship seen by vessels departing the United States, as well as the first beacon seen on approach. The position was 40 miles (64 km)[clarification needed] southeast of Nantucket Island, the farthest lightship in North America, and experienced clockwise rotary tidal currents.[1]
Inside the seaman's bethel. The movie Moby Dick was filmed here. The original pulpit was replace to look light the one from the movie.
Bedroom from the Seaman's House
Beach at Vineyard Haven
Vineyard Haven, MA
Vineyard Haven. Martha's Vineyard
Gingerbread houses in Edgertown on Martha's Vineyard
Gingerbread houses in Edgertown on Martha's Vineyard
Gingerbread houses in Edgertown on Martha's Vineyard
Gingerbread houses in Edgertown on Martha's Vineyard
Gingerbread houses in Edgertown on Martha's Vineyard
Nantucket
Typical architechture of Nantucket Island
Oldest still working Grissmill
The name of this lighthouse is derived from the language of the Native Americans who lived on Nantucket, the Wampanoags. Their word “sankoty” means highland, and even erosion hasn’t changed the appropriateness of that name. The brick-and-granite structure sits 70 feet tall on the bluff at the end of what is now Baxter Road in Siasconset, flashing its white light every 7.5 seconds. The stalwart lighthouse was built in 1850, and has not been replaced. Upon a 1990 inspection of the structure, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wrongly predicted that it would fall off a nearby sea cliff within 10 years. Nonetheless, in 2007 the lighthouse was very meticulously moved 400 feet back from the cliff’s edge. In 1987, it was tucked in right next to its counterpart in The National Register of Historic Places, even though it still functions as a navigational device.
The top of the Great Point Lighthouse. It was saved after the structure fell over in 1984. Located at the Shipwreck and lifesaving Museum on Nantucket
Nantucket
Apparent sailing capitol of the world, Newport Rhode Island
View of Newport Harbor from Fort Adams
24 pound cannon
Main entry poinnt at the rear of the fort.
One of the many tunnels in the secure walls of the rear part of the fort.
Outer tunnels of Fort Adams
Outter Wall
Rhode Islands flagship. Comissioned in 2015, at 200' and 471 gross tons, she trains future sailers.
St. Mary's Catholic Church. John Kenedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in this cathedral on 9-12-1953
Newport Harbor. Sailboats and more sailboats
Newport Bridge light up at night
Martha’s Vineyard
Vanderbilt Mansion
The Breakfast Room
The Breakfast Room
Brandy set
View from the back porch of the Vanderbilt mansion
Piano Room Vanderbuilt Mansion
Sitting area. Vanderbilt Mansion
Sitting Room
A view from Vanderbilts's mansion. You can see the view from the Cliff Walk here.
The Vanderbilt Estate
Lobster Bake at Ft. Adams with the passengers from the American Star
More rooms at Ft. Adams
Cannon overlooking Naggasagatte Bay
American Star docked in Newport Rhode Island
Sunset Sail
The New York Yacht Club, Newport RI
Oliver Hazard Perry
Rose Island Lighthouse
Another New England Lighthouse
Herreshoff Maritime Museum
Herreshoff Maritime Museum
VFD Monument Bristol RI
St. Mary's Church Bristol RI
St. Mary's Church Bristol RI
Garden of the Blithewold Mansion, Bristol RI
Chipmonk dining on some fresh Blueberries
Robin Taking Off
Front of the Blithewold Mansion
![The station named Nantucket or Nantucket Shoals was served by a number of lightvessels (also termed lightships) that marked the hazardous Nantucket Shoals south of Nantucket Island. The vessels, given numbers as their "name," had the station name painted on their hulls when assigned to the station. Several ships have been assigned to the Nantucket Shoals lightship station and have been called Nantucket. It was common for a lightship to be reassigned and then have the new station name painted on the hull. The Nantucket station was a significant US lightship station for transatlantic voyages. Established in 1854, the station marked the limits of the dangerous Nantucket Shoals. She was the last lightship seen by vessels departing the United States, as well as the first beacon seen on approach. The position was 40 miles (64 km)[clarification needed] southeast of Nantucket Island, the farthest lightship in North America, and experienced clockwise rotary tidal currents.[1]](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/335f102a-bcd4-438c-89a4-2a8b6c1cf0af/d937b0bd-fc03-4c75-8e89-e19e5f4fb93b_rw_1920.jpg?h=bfb4404a6a55ccefdc6eb556d5b30936)
