List of ships named Nantucket


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

Lightships

Other ships