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<p class="MsoNormal"><em>The Nantucket Lightship leaves port at Oyster Bay Harbor to become an education center and museum in Boston. (Photo by Loretta Guglielmino</em><o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Nantucket Lightship, moored for seven years in Oyster Bay Harbor looking for a permanent home, is expected to reach Boston Harbor today to become an education center and museum.&nbsp;<o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The 73-year-old lightship, which yesterday left Oyster Bay Harbor, is the largest of a class of Coast Guard lightships that served as mobile lighthouses. The vessel was decommissioned in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.</p>  
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The Nantucket Lightship leaves port at Oyster Bay Harbor to become an education center and museum in Boston. (Photo by Loretta Guglielmino / May 9, 2010) The Nantucket Lightship, moored for seven years in Oyster Bay Harbor looking for a permanent home, is expected to reach Boston Harbor today to become an education center and museum. The 73-year-old lightship, which yesterday left Oyster Bay Harbor, is the largest of a class of Coast Guard lightships that served as mobile lighthouses. The vessel was decommissioned in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

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