Caption: "A U.S. Navy LST landed at Steamboat Wharf on Nantucket during the strike of 1960 with supplies for the Naval Facility at Tom Nevers Head. ...*"

* ... "The line seen running from the vessel to the clump of dolphins on the left became wedged and could not be cast off when the landing craft departed, so had to be cut free. The eye of the line is still there. courtesy Inquirer and Mirror"

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Date: 1960
Location: Nantucket - * - Steamboat Wharf
Keywords: strikes; labor; steamers; steamships; ferries; military; U.S. Navy