Huron Lightship (LV-103/WAL-526)
(33 pictures in the archive.)
- The Captain's stateroom.
- An administrative office.
- Rigging to lower the relief boat to the water.
- The relief boat on deck.
- One of the massive fog signals.
- The fog signals.
- The wheelhouse.
- The fog bell.
- The searchlight.
- Equipment on the wheelhouse roof.
- A buoy that would mark a channel.
- One of the hatches to lower deck.
- The communications room.
- The light. Sorry for the wrist strap.
- The relief boat.
- A little boat. Part of the display.
- A life ring bearing the LV103 name.
- A Great Lakes freighter passes the Huron.
- The lightship as a whole.
- The Huron as a whole.
- The Huron and the Bluewater Bridge.
- The Huron. It doesn't sit in the water, rather next to the water.
- The Huron. It sits next to the St. Clair river.
- A good shot of the complete lightship.
- The kitchen.
- The engines to lift the massive anchors. Notice the chain? Each link weighs 14lbs.
- The twin diesel engines below deck.
- The bunk of the only serviceman to loose his life in the history of the Huron.
- Some more of the searchlights.
- Close up of the engines to lift the anchors. Notice the piece of chain link.
- A captain's office.
- The Huron Lightship sign.
- The lightship from the front.