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Nantucket Lightship in Oyster Bay sold; move in the works

After languishing for more than six years at the Waterfront Center in Oyster Bay, the historic Nantucket Lightship has been sold to a group that plans to move it to Boston next month and restore it.

Jerry Roberts, a board member of the National Lighthouse Museum, which for more than a decade has been trying to establish a museum on the Staten Island waterfront, said he and Robert Mannino Jr.,...

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