Mary Ann (pilot boat)
{{short description|New York Pilot boat}}
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The Mary Ann, No. 13 was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat built for the New York pilots. She helped transport maritime pilots between inbound or outbound ships coming into the New York Harbor. In 1860, the Mary Ann, was one of only twenty-one pilot boats in the New York and New Jersey fleet. She went ashore outside Sandy Hook in 1863.
Construction and service
There are many reports of the pilot-boat Mary Ann from 1830 to 1863 in the New York newspapers. One of the first reports of the Mary Ann appears on 1837, when pilots James M. West and Edward Maull, of the pilot boat Mary Ann passed the pirate ship Susquehennah near Cape Henlopen Light, Delaware.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68848441/susquehennah/ |title=Lewis, Del. Cape Henlopen. |work=Baltimore Sun|place= Baltimore, Maryland|date=25 Oct 1837|page=1|access-date=2021-01-29}} Thomas Rowland, one of the pilots on board the Mary Ann said that they passed the Susquehennah and could see a cross in her fore topsail.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68850428/thomas-rowland/|title=Still Later. |work=The National Gazette |place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=27 Oct 1837|page=2|access-date=2021-01-29}}
John Taylor did his apprentice on the 45-ton pilot boat Mary Ann in the early 1830s.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68881057/john-taylor/|title=Talk Of The Capitol. |work=Camden Daily Telegram |place= Camden, New Jersey|date=20 Sep 1889|page=4|access-date=2021-01-29}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68881667/john-taylor/|title=New York's Oldest Pilot. |work=The Buffalo Commercial|place= Buffalo, New York|date=24 Dec 1895|page=5|access-date=2021-01-29}}
In 1830, Richard Westley, in the pilot boat Mary Ann, came across a shipwrecked schooner at Bareford Bar.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68883370/shipwreck/|title=Shipwreck|work=The National Gazette|place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=27 Mar 1830|page=3|access-date=2021-01-29}} In 1833, Westley, in the Mary Ann, used the Breakwater as a harbor in bad weather.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68882441/westley/|title=Breakwater, Jan 14, 1833 |work=The United States Gazette|place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|date=19 Jan 1833|page=3|access-date=2021-01-29}}
On April 23, 1852, pilot boat Mary Ann launched a yawl with two men to bring back a pilot that was on the bark Southerner in a heavy storm. The yawl came alongside the bark, when it filled with water and capsized, drowning the two men.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68854323/sourtherner/|title=Accident And Loss Of Life. |work=New York Daily Herald |place= New York, New York |date=23 Apr 1852|page=8|access-date=2021-01-29}}
On April 6, 1856, the pilot boat Mary Ann, No. 13 was on station when she was run into by a unknown schooner. She was towed into port by the steamtug Hector.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68854734/hector/|title= Miscellaneous and Disasters. |work=New York Daily Herald |place=New York, New York|date=6 Apr 1856|page=8|access-date=2021-01-28}}
On September 18, 1857, Captain James R. Murphy, from the pilot boat Mary Ann, No. 13 boarded the Spanish ship Emilia. The ship then went out at sea in heavy gales where she received further damage.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68856425/emilia/|title=The News |work=New York Daily Herald (New York, New York), WedPage 4 |place=New York, New York|date=23 Sep 1857|page=4|access-date=2021-01-28}}
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On October 30, 1859, pilots Francis Pennea, Peter R. Ballie, and Thomas Atiken were on the pilot boat Mary Ann, No. 13 when they rescued three men in a yawl twenty-five miles off Sandy Hook. The men were blown out to sea during a storm, while they were returning to the Sandy Hook Lightship after picking up Charles C. Freeman from the Merchants' Express Line Clipper ship Richard S. Ely.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68860366/rescue/|title=Narrow Escape Of A Sandy Hook Pilot.|work=New New York Daily Herald |place=New York, New York |date=30 Oct 1859|page=5|access-date=2021-01-28}}
In 1860, the Mary Ann was one of only twenty-one pilot boats in the New York and New Jersey fleet. The boat number "13" was painted as a large number on her mainsail, that identified the boat as belonging to the Sandy Hook Pilots.
{{cite book |last=Russell |first=Charles Edward |date=1929|title=From Sandy Hook to 62°|location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TAxgwgEACAAJ&q=%09Christian%20Bergh|publisher= Century Co.|oclc=3804485|pages=148, 159}}
On October 10, 1860, New York Sandy Hook Pilot John Cannon, of the pilot boat Mary Ann, No. 13 signed a statement along with other pilots, that he was satisfied with the representation he had received from the New York Board of Commissioners of Pilots.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68765917/board-of-commissioners/|work=New York Daily Herald |place=New York, New York|title= The New York Pilots. To The Editor Of The Herald.|date=10 Oct 1860|page=2|access-date=2021-01-28}}
One of last reports of the pilot boat Mary Ann, No. 13 was on August 28, 1863, when she went ashore outside Sandy Hook. She was later able to get off the bar without any damage.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74284542/mary-ann/ |title=Miscellaneous.|work=The New York Times|date=28 August 1863|page=8|access-date=2021-03-24}}
Sandy Hook pilot, Captain David Anderson Thomas purchased a controlling interest in the pilot boat Mary Ann, which he had up to his death in 1864.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68883695/thomas/|title=Inherited His Calling.|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|place= Brooklyn, New York |date=30 Jan 1880|page=4|access-date=2021-01-29}}
See also
References
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{{List of Northeastern U. S. Pilot Boats}}
Category:Schooners of the United States