A number of ships have been named Nantucket, after the island off the Massachusetts coast, including the following:
Naval vessels , a Passaic-class coastal monitor that served in the Union during the American Civil War, and sold in 1900 , built in 1876 as USS Ranger and served as Nantucket from 1918 to 1942, as a gunboat and then a survey/school ship , an 1899-built coastal passenger steamer taken up in 1917, but found unsuitable for naval service and returned to her owner , a Freedom-class littoral combat ship commissioned in 2024
Ferry service The Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket island has been operated by many vessels, including: Nantucket (steamboat), a sidewheel steam ferry in service 1886 to 1910 Nantucket, the former Nobska (steamship), in service 1928 to 1956 SS Nantucket (1956), in service 1957 to 1974, then renamed Naushon MV Nantucket, in service since 1974
Lightships Lightship Nantucket was a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least 11 individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including: LV-58 (1894–1896) LV-85 (1907–1923), under US Navy control 1917–1919 LV-117 (1930–1934) LV-112 (for periods during 1936–1975), now preserved in Boston, Massachusetts WLV-613 (1967–1983) WLV-612 (1975–1983) (alternated with WLV-613 in final years)
Other ships Nantucket (1837), a whaling ship, wrecked in 1859 Nantucket Clipper, a 1984-built cruise ship, later trading as Spirit of Nantucket , an Island-class patrol boat launched in 1987, and reported transferred to Ukraine in 2018
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