Gay Head (steamboat)
The Gay Head was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It was named after the town of Gay Head, Massachusetts, later renamed Aquinnah.
The Gay Head, circa 1897. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Gay Head |
| Namesake | Gay Head, Massachusetts |
| Operator | New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamboat Co. |
| Launched | 1891 |
| Out of service | 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Paddle steamer |
| Displacement | 701 long tons (712 t) |
| Length | 203 ft (62 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Propulsion | Pusey and Jones steam engine |
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