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Lightship 117 at Nantucket was sideswiped by the SS Washington in early 1934, and four months later, on 15 May 1934, she was rammed and sunk by the British White Star ship RMS Olympic homing in on its radio beacon in dense fog.
RMS Olympic Nantucket Collision 1934 (HD/audio) On the 85th Anniversary of the Sinking of Nantucket Lightship LV-117, Egan Maritime recalls the events and people who were part of the tragedy that occurred on May 15, 1934, forty-three miles off Nantucket.
1. Mai 2021 · On May 15, 1934, when heavy fog had engulfed the region, the Nantucket lay anchored in 192 feet of water just south of Nantucket Shoals. That night, the lightship sounded her fog horn for the incoming 47,000-ton, 900-foot ocean liner, Olympic, the sister of the infamous Titanic and Britannic vessels.
Lightship Nantucket sunk by RMS Olympic On May 15, 1934, Nantucket / LV-117 was struck by the passenger liner Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic. Olympic, nearly 75 times larger than the lightship and traveling at about 20 knots, struck it broadside in heavy fog and drove it to the bottom.
Monteiro lost his life on the foggy morning of May 15, 1934 when the 882-foot, 45,000 ton RMS Olympic, sister ship to the RMS Titanic, smashed into the tiny lightship and sent the vessel to its watery grave in the waters of the Nantucket Shoals about 42 miles south of Nantucket Island, which is about 200 miles from New York City, the ...
Moored south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, the lightship was at the western part of the transatlantic shipping lane and the first lightship encountered by westbound liners approaching New York Harbor. On May 15, 1934, one of these liners, RMS Olympic, rammed and sank LV-117, killing seven of her crew.
Nantucket waters were the site of several noted transportation disasters: On May 15, 1934, the ocean liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to RMS Titanic, rammed and sank the Nantucket Lightship LV-117 in heavy fog, roughly 45 miles south of Nantucket Island. Four men survived out of a crew of 11.
