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Lightship AMBROSE (LV-87/WAL-512)

10038 New York, NY, United States of America (USA) (New York)

Address 12 Fulton Street
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Navy / Watercraft
  • Lamps and Light
  • Historic Engineering Landmarks
  • Amateur Radio / Military & Industry Radio


Opening times
Spring and summer: hourly tours starting at 11am and the final tour at 4pm.

Admission
Status from 01/2020
included in General Museum Admission of South Street Seaport Museum

Contact
Tel.:+1-212-748-86 00  Fax:+1-212-748-85 90  
eMail:info seany.org   

Homepage southstreetseaportmuseum.org/visit/street-of-ships/lightship-ambrose

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Location / Directions
N40.705321° W74.002547°N40°42.31926' W74°0.15282'N40°42'19.1556" W74°0'9.1692"

next to South Street Seaport Museum

Description

Lightship LV-87, also known as AMBROSE, was built in 1907 as a “floating lighthouse” to guide ships safely from the Atlantic Ocean into the broad mouth of lower New York Bay between Coney Island, New York and Sandy Hook, New Jersey-an area filled with sand bars and shoals perilous to approaching vessels.

South Street Seaport Museum’s Ambrose occupied her original station from her launching in 1908 until 1932. In 1921 Ambrose was fitted with a radio beacon, greatly assisting navigation of the channel in poor visibility; she was the first lightship so equipped.

She was given to South Street Seaport Museum by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1968. During the spring and summer, visitors can board Ambrose and tour this original lightship, complete with working “radio shack.”


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