Everything about Frying Pan Lightship totally explained
Frying Pan Shoals Station
In 1854, because of complaints from mariners that the height of the existing
Bald Head Lighthouse was inadequate, and the light of its Third-order Fresnel lens wasn't bright enough to warn mariners of the shallow waters of the treacherous
Frying Pan Shoals off the coast of
Cape Fear in
North Carolina, United States, the first lightship was stationed on the shoals, in lieu of a proposal to improve Bald Point Lighthouse. Lightships remained on station for 110 years.
The Bald Point lighthouse, and others, were turned off during the Civil War to avoid aiding the Northern ships.
The ship was replaced by a lighttower in 1964.
Naval Records
The lighttower, a
Texas tower was manned until 1979, is a great diving spot and still stands to this day.
This ship, LV-115, was the last of 9 ships that served in succession, with some alternation, at the Frying Pan Shoals station during and since the American Civil War.
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Construction and Features
LV-115 was built in 1929-1930 by Charleston Drydock and Machine Co. for a contract price of $274,434.
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Service
It served at Frying Pan Shoals from 1930 to 1942, and again from 1945 to 1964. During World War II the ship was used as an
examination vessel, as part of training.
FRYING PAN was retired from duty at Frying Pan Shoals in 1964. It served briefly as a relief ship at Cape May, New Jersey, and then was decommissioned in 1965.
The ship sank in 1984 or 1986. Photos of the sinking in progress, and description here.
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Having been underwater for three years, it was raised in 1987.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
Frying Pan is one of about 13 surviving American lightships, out of about 100 built. Two other lightships,
AMBROSE (lightship) at
South Street Seaport and
NANTUCKET (lightship) at Oyster Bay, Long Island, became National Historic Landmarks and are open to the public as
museum ships.
Party Ship
"Unlike the staid
Ambrose lightship at the South Street Seaport Museum, the Frying Pan lightship is now used basically as a bar.)" --
Blog of Brian.
Frying Pan can be rented for events and functions. It became known as one of the top 100 party sites in NYC.
FRYING PAN (lightship) LV-115 is a
lightvessel moored at
Pier 66a in the
Chelsea neighborhood of
Manhattan in
New York City. It served at
Frying Pan Shoals, off
Cape Fear in
North Carolina.
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