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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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of course.The Nye was transformed into a yacht and went to the Mediter-ranean, far away from the original scenes of her triumphs, as thefloating home of Marion Crawford, the novelist. The Actaea andthe Jesse Carll and the Eben D. Jordan also were converted intoyachts but the majority of the other discarded pilot boats blisteredtheir noses for a long time in Erie Basin, once famous—or is itinfamous?—as the graveyard of ships. — 28 — -6- & j VJ VJ w J vv J w vj M \ i VJ •e-e-e- ir v 666 One of the exceptions in the discard rule was the Thomas I).Harrison. For twenty years this trim little schooner had knownservice as a pilot hoat and when the day of the steam pilot boatcame she was disposed of to an importer and exporter who put herin the trade to Africa. She was a craft of only a trifle over 66 tons,with a length of 80 feet and a beam of 22 feet, drawing but littlewater. Nevertheless, she proved staunch enough for the hazardousbusiness to which she was assigned. f^ T7 29
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CO Q s *> «  r^ £ o cs •-3? — U ^H g Ph f*q « -*^ ^> u a ■—i su w DARING RESCUES PILOTS and sailors on board the pilot boat Walter Adams addedlaurels to the record of tbe Sandy Hook men when they took offthe passengers and crew, as well as all their effects, from theBritish steamship Alvena, bound from New York for Haytien ports,when that vessel was run down and cut through by a big Britishfreighter at the entrance of Gedneys Channel off Sandy Hook, onthe afternoon of January 19, 1897. The Alvena had to be beachedand her decks were submerged at high water, so that the need ofgetting her passengers and crew off was an urgent one. It was thesame pilot boat that happened along at the opportune time to rescuethe 150 fishermen excursionists from the stranded steamboat JohnE. Moore, on Romer Shoal, on Thanksgiving Day of the same year.The Moore had gone aground in a dense fog and quickly filled withwater. It was, indeed, a true Thanksgiv

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