Welcome Aboard !!!
Welcome to the Home page of the Web Site of the Volunteers of Lightship #116-538. We update different parts of this site monthly, so check back often and you will see the list of events updated, more photos added, revised list of items needed for the Lightship and other interesting information about this little known gem of Chesapeake Bay history. The "CHESAPEAKE" was the last active floating lighthouse, or Lightship, that was stationed in or near the Chesapeake Bay. The Lightship # 116-538 is 80 years young this year !!! Click HERE to see the ships Deck Log from the 31st of July 1930. This is the earliest Deck Log that we have been able to locate in the National Archives in DC. More Deck Logs can be viewed in the History - Ships Deck Logs pull-down menu above. We are constantly looking for past crew members of the Lightship # 116-538 and all photos of the 116-538 and crew, especially from the 1960s, to help us with the accurate restoration of the ship. If you served aboard her at any time, please contact us at: The ship is moored to Pier 3 in Baltimore Inner Harbor, right next to the Submarine Torsk and the aquarium. It is open for visiting with a paid admission to the Historic Ships In Baltimore museum, which was formed by the merger of the Baltimore Maritime Museum and USS Constellation Museum in 2009. Check the HSIB museum web site in our links page for times the museum is open and any discounts for military personnel. The HSIB Museum also maintains the Seven Foot Knolls Lighthouse and Coast Guard Cutter Taney on Pier 5 and the USS Constellation on Pier 1, in addition to the Lightship and Submarine. Both the Lightship and Lighthouse participate in the US Lighthouse Society Passport program, so ink stamps for each are available at the entrance to both. Just ask the museum staff member on duty. USLHS Passport books are can be purchased on the USLHS web site HERE . The Lightship stamp is shown to the right. updated 25 August 2010 This site is paid for and maintained by the Lightship volunteers and is not an official web site of the Historic Ships in Baltimore (HSIB) museum.
| The new Lightship patch. The USLHS Passport stamp for the Lightship CHESAPEAKE |
