Trivia for the ole salts'

[Fritz]

If you can remember this, you have been on the water a long time. No cheating by googling permitted. Where was it positioned and what was the approximate year you last saw it?

[marlineer]

I must be gettin' old! Been past Her many times.Gone early 70's?

[Fritz]

I must be gettin' old! Been past Her many times.Gone early 70's?

Dude you are old. As if the name on the side didn't give away the location, but some won't get it. Shh.

BTW- What landmark did you eyeball as a setup on Cape May Inlet from 12 miles out on a clear day? Yes, if you answer right you really are old.

How about when Herford's was actually somewhat navigable?

White Marlin in 20 fathoms could be caught in numbers on a given day.

Fill the boat with smal bluefin at Delware Light.

Fill a trash can with founder off the gun range in Cape May.

Loran A

Paper machines.

Ed Zaberer's and the list goes on and on

[Cardinal Joe]

Dude you are old. As if the name on the side didn't give away the location, but some won't get it. Shh.

BTW- What landmark did you eyeball as a setup on Cape May Inlet from 12 miles out on a clear day? Yes, if you answer right you really are old. I'm old as Dirt !!!!!!!!!! and then come Hubris
How about when Herford's was actually somewhat navigable? I wasn't even born back then , wasn't it back in the 1930's !
White Marlin in 20 fathoms could be caught in numbers on a given day.

Fill the boat with smal bluefin at Delware Light.

Fill a trash can with founder off the gun range in Cape May.

Loran A

Paper machines.

Ed Zaberer's and the list goes on and on

yeah ,ed was in Wildwood ,but his brother was on the Black Horse Pike / Delilah Road ! Did you remenber the name of there Drink ????????? Cardinal Joe

[sjogren]

When I worked on sword fish harpoon boat we took 7 day trips.
One of the good spots for us was the light ship at the shipping lanes south of the Vineyard.
The crew of the ship was vigilant for other traffic heading their way, always on the radio to make sure we were not on auto-pilot. More than one light ship was
hit by ships,and cut in half,on auto-pilot.
There was tons of white marlin right around the ship and we stuck more than a half a dozen on one trip. We got .70$ a lb 70 CENTS.Totally leagal at the time.
The sword boat T.T. Gilley threw a heaving line to crewmen with a skilley made off at the end. Fresh fish!
This was around 1975.

[Jay A]

Lightship LV 108
Cost $200,000
Machinery 1 GM diesel
Hull displacement 770fl
BHP 400-500
Length 132'4"
Propellors single
Beam 30' mb
Performance 6,5 knts, 8,750 mile radius
Draft 15' max
Complement 1 warrant, 14 men
Radar CR-103
Design Steel

LV110, also known as WAL532/WLV 532 was a sister ship to LV108. Her keel was laid on on the same day, and she was commissioned on January 24, 1924. She marked Five Fathom Bank from 1970-1971. She was used until her decommissioning on Novermber 3, 1971. She was donated on March 30, 1972.

The last Five Fathom Bank Lightship was LV189 (later called WLV189) which was built in 1947. She served at Five Fathom Bank from 1971-1972, when the station was discontinued. She was sent to the Boston station where she served until being decommissioned in 1974. She was being towed from the Boston station to Gardiners Basin in Atlantic City when she was rammed by a tanker. A large hole was ripped in her port side, which was never repaired. LV189 remained docked at Gardiner's Basin for seventeen years, practically ignored, until she was donated to New Jersey's Artificial Reef Program. On February 29, 1994 she was sent to the bottom to provide habitat for fish and other lifeforms. She had previously also served stints on the Diamond Shoals, and New Orleans stations.

A large navigational buoy replaced the departing Five Fathom Bank Lightship #189 which marked a main shipping channel to Delaware Bay, 20 miles off Cape May, New Jersey.

[flatbottom]

great topic Fritz. Over the years I have read a few articles on the light ships.

[team oldschool]

It's interesting listening to my father talk about what the daily routine on one was. He was on one up and down the East coast. He would tell me about some of the fish they would catch while on station and about some of the storms they would have to ride out. Really pretty cool.