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Portsmouth Lightship Museum

Portsmouth, United States of America

Portsmouth Lightship Museum

United States Lightship 101, known as Portsmouth (LV-101) as a museum ship, was first stationed at Cape Charles, Virginia. Today she is at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum in Portsmouth, Virginia. Portsmouth never had a lightship station; however, when the vessel was dry docked there as a museum

, she took on the pseudonym Portsmouth. A National Historic Landmark, she is one of a small number of surviving lightships.

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