![]() WAL 539 painted for "OVERFALLS" station, docked in Lewes, Delaware in 2015
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History | |
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Name | LV 118 |
Operator | United States Lighthouse Service/United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Rice Brothers Corporation, East Boothbay, Maine |
Cost | $223,900 |
Launched | 4 June 1938 |
Commissioned | 11 September 1938 |
Decommissioned | 7 November 1972 |
Renamed |
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Status | Museum Ship in Lewes, Delaware |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lightvessel |
Displacement | 412 short tons (374 t) |
Length | 114 ft 9 in (34.98 m) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m) |
Installed power | Cooper-Bessemer 8 cylinder air-start Diesel engine, 400 bhp (300 kW) |
Propulsion | Single shaft, reduction gear, 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) propeller |
Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
Crew | 14 |
Lightship WAL-539 | |
Location | Lewes, Delaware |
Coordinates | 38°46′40.5″N 75°8′28″W / 38.777917°N 75.14111°W |
Built | 1938 |
Architect | Rice Brothers |
NRHP reference No. | 89000006 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | 16 February 1989[1] |
Designated NHL | 14 June 2011 |
Lightship Overfalls (LV-118) (later renumbered WAL-539) was the last lightvessel constructed for the United States Lighthouse Service before the Service became part of the United States Coast Guard.[2] She is currently preserved in Lewes, Delaware as a museum ship.