Portal:Sandy Hook pilot
A Sandy Hook pilot is a licensed maritime pilot for the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Hudson River, and Long Island Sound. Sandy Hook pilots guide oceangoing vessels, passenger liners, freighters, and tankers in and out of New York and New Jersey harbors.
Coverage
[edit]- Half A Century of Piloting (1890 October 12)
- "Joseph Henderson, the brave old salt who died last Wednesday, was a most remarkable man in the Sandy Hook pilot service as well as the oldest. His record an a pilot is set down as forty-five years, but some men on South street remember him in 1845 as a pilot of some standing even then, so it must have been nearly half a century that do was taking vessels in and out of the harbor. He had been in more accidents than any two other pilots in the service. …"
- A Pilot's Perils (1890 March 13)
- "… During the famous blizzard of March, 1888 the Phantom, No. 11, and the Enchantress, No. 18, were lost with all hands. …"