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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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Text Appearing Before Image: years,after which they can become pilots; but it is a trainingthat makesmen. The weaklings drop out and only men who love the hard, bit-ter life of the sea can face the prospect of nine years duty at eightdollars a week. Picking up the pilot is always a feature of thetransatlantic voyage. Long before land is sighted the first officerof the liner will hoist the S flag at the foremast as a signal that apilot is wanted. At night he will shoot a Very star skyrocket tocall the pilot boat. Then, far down the western horizon, where theglow of Ambrose Channel lightvessel flashes and fades in the sky, — 81- — w h/1 / \, V7 • \ \ / \ / [el t7 tt one sees the answering flare from the pilot boat. Soon the grayyacht will glide alongside, dropping a yawl, and the pilot will climbthe monkey ladder over the ships side, step into the circle ofpassengers gathered on deck, carving the city papers in his great-coat pockets and there is always a scramble for the bundle of realshore news. m m — 85

Text Appearing After Image: 5> {J HO W inH o >1 I Si «J in <n 6V. B5 FROM SAIL TO STEAM THE pilot service in New York Harbor was revolutionized whenthe old sailing boats were discarded and the modern steam pilotboat New York was placed in commission. First, however, thepilots used the Walter Adams and the Alaska, both of them fishingboats with steam power, which were chartered pending the construc-tion of the modern pilot boat New York and her expected consort,the New Jersey. The Walter Adams had a tonnage of 175 net and alength of 133 feet and the Alaska had a net tonnage of 121 with alength of 141 feet. The pilots also used the fishing steamer Trentonas an auxiliary cruiser. For a time several of the old-time sailingboats were kept in the service for emergency and cruising duty out-side Sandy Hook. With the placing of the New York in commissionin 1897 the Adams and Alaska were returned to their owners andwent back into the fishing trade. The New York was designed andmodelled by A. Cary Smit

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