MV Nantucket
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The M/V Nantucket is a 230' long ferry
owned and operated by The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
. It was built in 1974 by Belinger Shipyards in Jacksonville, Florida
. It serves the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
. It was named after a 19th-century paddlewheel steamer serving this route, the sidewheeler Nantucket
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Ferry
A ferry is a form of transportation, usually a boat, but sometimes a ship, used to carry primarily passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water. Most ferries operate on regular, frequent, return services...
owned and operated by The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, referred to coloquially as The Steamship Authority or simply the SSA, is the statutory regulatory body for all ferry operations to and from the Islands from the Massachusetts mainland, as well as being an operator of ferry service...
. It was built in 1974 by Belinger Shipyards in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
. It serves the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard is an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for being an affluent summer colony....
. It was named after a 19th-century paddlewheel steamer serving this route, the sidewheeler Nantucket
Nantucket (steamboat)
The Nantucket was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century...
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