Distance Finding Stations

1961 List of Lights and Other Marine Aids - Volume I - Atlantic Coast of the United States - First, Third, and Fifth Coast Guard Districts

1 Mount Desert Rock ME
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2 Matinicus Rock (South Tower) ME
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6 Halfway Rock ME
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7 Portland Lightship ME
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41 Boston Lightship MA
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59 Pollock Rip Lightship MA Unknown Distance Finding
69 Nantucket Shoals Lightship MA
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75 Buzzards Bay Lightship MA Unknown Distance Finding
76 Block Island Southeast RI
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89 West Quoddy Head ME
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393 Stonehorse Shoal Lightship MA
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404 Cross Rip Lightship MA
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477 Cleveland East Ledge MA
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535 Brenton Reef Lightship RI
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652 Montauk Point NY
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663 Ambrose Channel Lightship NJ
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671 Barnegat Lightship NJ
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687 Five Fathom Bank Lightship NJ
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692 Overfalls Lightship DE Unknown Distance Finding
706 Little Gull Island NY
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764 Stratford Shoal CT
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785 Execution Rocks NY
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2203 Winter Quarter Shoal Lightship VA
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2214 Chesapeake Lightship VA
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2215 Cape Henry VA
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2231 Diamond Shoal Lightship NC
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2252 Frying Pan Shoal Lightship NC
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2433 Wolf Trap VA
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2446 Smith Point VA
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2463 Cove Point MD
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2471 Thomas Point Shoal MD
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