All aboard the Nantucket Lightship, the beautifully restored luxury yacht with a unique past. The Nantucket Lightship sits at Brooklyn Bridge Park‘s Pier 6 and serves as an event space, charter yacht, ...

Robert Mannino apologized as he lowered an ordinary wooden ladder instead of a gangplank for visitors to come aboard the 149-foot Nantucket Lightship/LV-112.For 39 years, this lightship was ambassador ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Have you ever dreamed of living on a houseboat? Well, there's nothing else like the one that just went on the market in Boston. It boasts a custom designed interior that keeps alive the ...

BOSTON – Back in the 1800s, the rocky shallow waters off of New England's coasts were deadly obstacles mariners dreaded. So Congress stationed Nantucket lightships off the shores of Massachusetts, ...

There's a historic red ship docked in Boston Harbor that's up for sale for the tidy sum of $5.2 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bill Golden, a former state senator, and his wife ...

The Nantucket Lightship, which recently returned to New England waters after years of neglect, has been named a "National Treasure" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.The designation ...

WAREHAM -- The Nantucket lightship was once a flashing beacon warning mariners of the dangerous shallow waters to the south and east of the Nantucket islands. Today, the 129-foot-long lightship is ...

For the first time in four decades, a lightship that once played a key role in guiding vessels through waters off Nantucket shone its beacon, this time at an East Boston marina on Friday night. The ...

The Nantucket Lightship leaves port at Oyster Bay Harbor to become an education center and museum in Boston. (Photo by Loretta Guglielmino / May 9, 2010) The Nantucket Lightship, moored for seven ...

Midlife can be a good time to reconnect with old interests or develop new ones. About five years ago, Pamela Smith took a Duxbury Art Association class in making Nantucket Lightship baskets. Smith, 55 ...