Lightship Frying Pan LV-115
Address:
Hudson River Park
Pier 66, W 26th Street
Manhattan
212-989-6363
Category: Historic Ships
Current Use: Attraction/Event Space
Built: 1929 Charleston Drydock, SC
Length: 133.3, Beam: 30, Draft: 13.8
Gross tonnage: 630, Hull: STEEL
Original Use: Aid to Navigation
Designation: National Register of Historic Places
Description: One of only 13 lightships surviving from more than 100 Established. Served from 1930 to 1965 as the floating lighthouse at Frying Pan Shoals, located at the entrance to Cape Fear River in North Carolina. Employed as an examination vessel and net tender during WWII, retired in 1965, and recovered from the bottom of Chesapeake Bay in 1989.
