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Article: all patched up and ready to go.(Local)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 30, 2009
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By Robert McCabe
The Virginian-Pilot
NORFOLK
The Overfalls, a historic lightship from Delaware, will head back home today after more than six months of repairs at Colonna's Shipyard Inc. in Norfolk .
Commissioned in 1938 as LV 118, part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service, it spent decades off the coasts of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Today, it is one of only 17 such vessels left, from 179 built or converted between 1820 and 1952, according to the Web site of the Lewes, Del.-based Overfalls Maritime Museum Foundation, a nonprofit that bought the lightship for $1 in 2001 from a local historical group.
The Overfalls is ...