LIGHTSHIP No. 101, PORTSMOUTH

London Slip, Elizabeth River, Portsmouth (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Portsmouth.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 05, 1989. NRIS 89001080.

1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • CAPE CHARLES
  • Lightship # 101
  • OVERFALLS
  • RELIEF
  • STONEH
  • WAL 524

From Wikipedia:

United States lightship Portsmouth (LV-101)

United States Lightship 101, now known as Portsmouth as a museum ship, was first stationed at Cape Charles, Virginia. Today she is at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. Portsmouth never had a lightship station; however, when the vessel was dry docked there as a museum, she took on the pseudonym Portsmouth. A National Historic Landmark, she is one of a small number of surviving lightships.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679105

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