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
- The Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket island has been operated by many vessels, including:
- *Nantucket (steamboat), a sidewheel steam ferry in service 1886 to 1910
- *Nantucket, the former Nobska (steamship), in service 1928 to 1956
- *SS Nantucket (1956), in service 1957 to 1974, then renamed Naushon
- *MV Nantucket, in service since 1974
Lightships
- Lightship Nantucket was a lightship station marking the shoals south of the island and on which at least 11 individual lightships took station between 1854 and 1983, including:
- *LV-58
- *LV-85, under US Navy control 1917–1919
- *LV-117
- *LV-112, now preserved in Boston, Massachusetts
- *WLV-613
- *''WLV-612''
Other ships
- Nantucket, a whaling ship, wrecked in 1859
- Nantucket Clipper, a 1984-built cruise ship, later trading as Spirit of Nantucket
- , an Island-class patrol boat launched in 1987, and reported transferred to Ukraine in 2018