MV Nantucket
{{Short description|Ship built in 1974}}
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|+MV Nantucket {{Infobox ship image | Ship image=MV Nantucket August 2017.png | Ship caption=Nantucket docking at Oak Bluffs, August 2017. }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship namesake=Nantucket | Ship owner=Steamship Authority | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Belinger Shipyards | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship completed=1974 | Ship christened= | Ship acquired= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship identification=*{{IMO Number|7334199}}
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MV Nantucket is a {{convert|230|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} ferry owned and operated by the Steamship Authority. It was built in 1974 by Belinger Shipyards in Jacksonville, Florida. She serves the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SMMAQAAIAAJ&q=%22MV+Nantucket%22+-wikipedia |title=Steamboat Bill: Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America |date=1974 |publisher=Steamship Historical Society of America |page=105|quote=With the arrival of the new M.V. NANTUCKET from Florida in April the Steamship Authority's fleet will be increased to six boats, and there is not enough berthing space at the wharves unless the south side of Steamboat Wharf in ... |language=en}}
{{cite web
|url=https://www.steamshipauthority.com/about/vessels
|title=Steamship Authority Fleet
|publisher=The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
|accessdate=2012-10-04
}} She was named after a 19th-century paddlewheel steamer serving this route, the sidewheeler Nantucket.
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Category:Ferries of Massachusetts
Category:Transportation in Dukes County, Massachusetts
Category:Transportation in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Category:Ships built in Jacksonville, Florida
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