Nantucket, 1950 

Good Gawd! This is tremendous. The Jethro Coffin House ("The Oldest House") with it's "horseshoe chimney" was struck by lightning in 1988 and the chimney was blown to smitherenes. It's an ancestral house of mine. It took an act of God and a MONSTROUS amount of money to put the house back together again. This is invaluable footage. Thank you!

It was a great steamer. The whistle is now on the Eagle. So a little piece of Nobska lives on. The sound brings back many pleasant memories for me.

My parents first came to Nantucket in 1965. Beautiful footage!

The reason I believe it is the Nobska is at 3:02 mins into the video the camera moves towards the bow and only the Nobska had a pointed bow. and the open railings like those shown and it looks like they left from steam boat warf because your view is of the yacht club mooring area. The Nobska's whistle is now on the MV Eagle and it is great to hear it blowing it takes me back to when I was a kid on Nantucket

this movie is amazing. you should play it with an old jazz song by louis armstrong, like "stardust". was that a whale tail at the end!?

great to see the old island. how about cross rip light ship from the Nobska wow great stuff

@lipwak Actually, that's the entrance light at the end of the east jetty, where the fog horn is.

@Shubael1809 You're welcome. It always makes me happy that what were just home movies for us, might be more valuable in unknown ways to others.

Thanks for posting this.

Great info, thanks!

I've wondered about that black fin-like thing towards the end too. It is so brief, I don't think we'll ever know. You'd think if it was a whale that my dad would have stayed on it longer. I think it was buoy of some sort.

The old Nobska is at the Charlestown Navy Yard in drydock, just a rusted old hulk. Poor old girl looks very sad now.

Was the Nobska the boat we had the camera on?

Brant Point.

Oh, if only they had bought 2 acres of land then, paid the taxes, taken the write offs, today that empty lot is worth $600,000