Identifier: pilotlorefromsai00unit (find matches)
Title: Pilot lore; from sail to steam
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: United New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Benevolent Associations National Service Bureau Allen, Edward L
Subjects: Shipping -- New York (State) New York Pilots and pilotage -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Harbor
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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was in sore straits indeed. The pilots on the Carrl launched a yawl, got a line from the wallowing bark, and started to tow the unwieldy cripple towards Sandy Hook, a distance of some fifty miles. As the little pilot boat and her helpless charge were nearing the Hook a great sea suddenly struck the Erna and turned her over. It was then that quick work had to be done by the pilots, who put over two yawls and rescued the crew of the German ship, which became a total loss. The rescues effected by the pilots outside of their work as pilots were without number, and hundreds of fishermen, professional and amateur, owed their lives to the promptness and bravery of the men who, presumably, were stationed at Sandy Hook and beyond only for the very commercial purpose of piloting incoming ships into the harbor and piloting outward bound ships safely past the treacherous shoal waters off Sandy Hook and inside the lower bay. -36-
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IMAGE: Pilot Boat William Starbuck, run down by SS Japanese off Barnegat, New Jersey.
NEWSPAPER CLIPPING: The Sad Fate of the Pilot Boat W. H. Starbuck. She is Believed to Have Gone Down to the Bottom of the Sea During the Great Gale on Monday Night (12 March 1888) After Colliding With the British Steamer Japanese. The handsome new Brooklyn pilot boat, W. H. Starbuck, No. 6, is believed, beyond peradventure, to have gone to the bottom of the sea with six souls on board, shortly after colliding with the British steamship Japanese, at midnight on Monday, during the gale. ^[1]

Text from book continues: THE TOLL IN THE SIXTIES MANY of the pilot fleet went ashore on the beaches of New Jersey and Long Island and as several were pulled off and re-placed in the service, it is difficult to enumerate the total of the vessels thus wrecked and abandoned since 1858. The Virginia went ashore near Rockaway shoals, in the dense fog in 1860. The Edwin Forrest was lost on Fire Island beach, in 1862, and the W. J. Romer struck a sunken wreck in 1863. The William Bell, as before related, was captured and burnt by the Confederate privateer Tallahassee in 1864, and another pilot boat by the same name went ashore off Amagansett during a gale and snow storm, in 1867. The Favorite and the George Steers were wrecked in 1865. The period immediately following the close of the Civil War was quite as disastrous for the brave men of Sandy Hook as the earlier days, as far as the destruction of their craft and the loss of brave lives was concerned. Pilot boat upon pilot boat had to be built to replace those sent to the b

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