Name/Title
Lightship Huron PhotoEntry/Object ID
2011.27.58Description
8.5x11 modern reprint of the lightship Huron on station. Photo appears to be before the ship was fitted with radar.
Huron Lightship LV-103 was built by Consolidated Shipbuilding Company in Morris Heights, New York at a cost of $147,428 and launched in 1920 as Lightship 103 of the United States Lighthouse Service. The lightship served as a relief vessel for other Great Lakes lightships and at Grays Reef and North Manitou Shoal in Lake Michigan. She was later re-designated U.S. Coast Guard WAL-526, then WLV-526. From 1935 until 1970 she served at Corsica Shoals, at the southern end of Lake Huron, approximately six miles north of the Blue Water Bridges and three miles east of the Michigan shoreline. When she was withdrawn in 1970 she was the last of twenty-two lightships on the Great Lakes and the only lightship to keep her station throughout World War II. In 1972, she was enshrined on the banks of St. Clair River at Pine Grove Park in Port Huron as a tribute to her vigilance and in memory of a by-gone era. In 1989, the lightship was designated a National Historic Landmark.
Length overall 97 ft.; Beam 24 ft.; Draft 9 ft. 6 in.; Displacement 310 tons (in fresh water); Mushroom anchor weight 3 tons; Dilok chain link weight 14 lbs.; Maximum ship speed 8 knots; Mast height above waterline (lantern mast) 52 ft. 6 in.; Keel laid in1918 by Consolidated Shipbuilding Company, Morris Heights (Bronx), New York. Maintained by Volunteers of the Huron Lightship Museum; owned by the City of Port Huron, and supported financially by the Lake Huron Lore Marine Society.
Station Assignments
1921-1923: Relief
1924-1926: Grays Reef (MI)
1927-1928: Relief (12th District)
1929: Grays Reef (MI)
1929-1933: Relief (12th District)
1934-1935: North Manitou Shoal (MI)
1935: Relief (11th District)
1935-1970: Lake Huron (MI)Photograph Details
Subject
Lightship HuronSubject Place
City
Port HuronCountry
St. Clair CountyState/Province
Michigan* Untyped Subject Place
United StatesCataloged By
Chris CausleyAcquisition
Accession
2011.27Source (if not Accessioned)
Chris CausleyMade/Created
Date made
circa 1921 - circa 1972Time Period
Inter-war, World War Two, Cold WarPlace
City
Port HuronCountry
St. Clair CountyState/Province
Michigan* Untyped Place
United StatesLocation
Location
Binder
Folder PH-3 ShipsShelf
Archive Room Shelf DRoom
Archive roomCategory
ArchiveCondition
Overall Condition
Very Good