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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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yons, another pilot, was at the wheel and startedto run into the Lower Bay for safe harbor. The gale piled thePatsy Hope on Sandy Hook Beach before those on board wereaware of it and the Sandy Hook life-saving crew rescued all handsover the bows, all going forward not to return. In twenty-fourhours nothing was left of the coffin-like pilot boat except a mass ofsplintered wood on the beach. — 22 — m A \\l A \ \f VI . \l e-e-e^-e-e J ., T7 /A \ / Hfa§§llggS8 Still another catastrophe was that of the Pilot Boat Mary E.Fish, built to replace the Mary Taylor which was lost, was rundown in her turn by a three-masted schooner near Barnegat andthe Mary & Catherine was run down by the steamship Haverton,off Absecom Light, in 1885. The Commodore Bateman was rundown by the steamship Suevia, while making fast time in a densefog, on Georges Bank, and the Charlotte Webb was rammed by thesteamship La Normandie, a French Liner, in a dense fog near SandyHook lightvessel, in 1889. W W 2.3 —
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LOSS OF THE COLUMBIA NONE hut those who have taken a trip in one of the old stylesail pilot boats can feel the horror of a dense fog and sud-denly seeing the bows of a steamer, looming up as if mountainhigh, bearing straight down upon the little cockleshell riding hesi-tatingly in the sea, her brave complement hoping against hope thatno reckless navigator will cut through the Atlantic waters unmindfulof smaller craft in the way of his big ship. Next on the list was the Eben 13. Jordan, which was struck bythe steamship Saginaw, off Barnegat, in 1892. The James Funckwas sunk in the Narrows by the steamship Union, in 1862 (being thesecond pilot boat to fall victim to the same steamship) but was sub-sequently raised and two years later was seized by the rebel privateerTallahassee and used as a tender and decoy, as before described indetail. The report of the loss of the Columbia, in 1883, indicates the ex-treme danger that pilots encountered while trying to board a steam-ship in rough wea

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