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Upload your photos. We may feature them.Nantucket, an island in the Atlantic lying 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., has a remarkable maritime heritage. There have been more than 700 shipwrecks off of its shores (earning the island the dour nickname "a graveyard of the Atlantic.")
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New this season is a retrospective exhibit on Madaket Millie, a local heroine who performed patrols of Madaket Harbor so faithfully that she was named an honorary officer in the U.S. Coast Guard for her life-saving efforts.
Open through Oct. 12, 2009. Admission is $5. Call 508/228-1885 for more details.
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This Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum reminds me of Old Coast Guard Station, a maritime museum in Virginia Beach. Like Nantucket museum it has 1000 photographs, 1800 artifacts that speaks volume of US lifesaving and Coast Guard Services and shipwrecks off Virginia coast. The separate ship wreck gallery itself has 600 artifacts along with ship wreck maps, inscriptions on boats and cargo along with surfmen’s handwritten logs from the shipwrecks, metal ID tags of surfmen’s and much more.
Posted By Nirdeshini on May 13, 2009, 2:11 AM