Editing Lightship (section)

==Lost lightships==
Because lightvessels must remain anchored in specific positions for the majority of their time at sea, they are more at risk of damage or destruction. Many lightships have been lost in hurricanes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uscg.mil/History/weblightships/aton_lightshipbib.asp|title=U.S. Coast Guard Historical Bibliography on Lightships.|access-date=21 February 2019}}</ref>
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* Lightship No. 84 ({{convert|135|feet}} long, weighing 683 tons), lies sunk since 1997 in a shallow section of [[New York Harbor]] and its two masts are still visible above the surface.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.672184,-74.016706&spn=0.005326,0.010131&t=k&hl=en|title=40.672184, -74.016706|website=Google Maps|access-date=21 February 2019}}</ref>{{Citation needed|reason=The masts are not visible on the map, and a source is needed for the other information about the ship|date=November 2021}}
* Lightship [[United States lightship Buffalo (LV-82)|LV-82 ''Buffalo'']] foundered in [[Lake Erie]] near [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], during the [[Great Lakes Storm of 1913]] with the loss of six lives.<ref>[http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/light/light-vessel.htm Vogel, Michael N. and Paul F. Redding ''Maritime Buffalo'', Buffalo History, Lightship LV 82.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528075851/http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/light/light-vessel.htm |date=2012-05-28 }}</ref> See [[Shipwrecks of the 1913 Great Lakes storm]] and [[List of victims of the 1913 Great Lakes storm]].
* Lightship No. 61 "Corsica Shoals" was destroyed in the same storm on Lake Huron as Lightship 82.<ref>{{cite uscghist|MI}}</ref> See [[Huron Lightship]] for further details.
* LV-6 and LV-73 were both lost with all hands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBLIGHTSHIPS/LV6.html|title=LV-6 history, U.S. Coast Guard.|access-date=21 February 2019}}</ref>
* The [[Nantucket Lightship LV-117]] was rammed and sunk in 1934 by [[RMS Olympic|RMS ''Olympic'']] homing in on its radio beacon, with a loss of three out of a crew of eleven.
* [[Lightship No. 114]] (WAL-536), built by [[Albina Engine & Machine Works]], served as an active lightship from 1930 to 1971. Her last assignment was at [[Portland, Maine]]. In 1975, she was purchased by the city of [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] and had "NEW BEDFORD" painted on her sides (despite the fact there never was a New Bedford lightship). She was never adequately maintained and her hull decayed due to years of neglect. She remained in New Bedford until she sank at her mooring on May 31, 2006. She was deemed beyond repair and was sold for scrap.