Pet, No. 9
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Pet, No. 9.jpg |Ship caption=Pet, No. 9, by Elisha Taylor Baker (circa 1880) }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1866}} |Ship name=Pet |Ship namesake= |Ship owner=New York Pilots |Ship operator=Joseph Henderson{{cite web |url=http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/New%20York%20NY%20Wilkes%20Spirit%20Of%20The%20Times/New%20York%20NY%20Spirit%20Of%20Times%201877%20Jan-Dec%20Grayscale.pdf/New%20York%20NY%20Spirit%20Of%20Times%201877%20Jan-Dec%20Grayscale%20-%200101.pdf |title=The Pilot Boat Pet - Number Nine of the New York Harbor Fleet |work=Spirit Of The Times |via=Fultonhistory.com |date=February 3, 1877 |accessdate=July 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924043201/http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/New%20York%20NY%20Wilkes%20Spirit%20Of%20The%20Times/New%20York%20NY%20Spirit%20Of%20Times%201877%20Jan-Dec%20Grayscale.pdf/New%20York%20NY%20Spirit%20Of%20Times%201877%20Jan-Dec%20Grayscale%20-%200101.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |url-status=live }} |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Edward A. Costigan at Charlestown, Massachusetts |Ship original cost=$14,000{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/329688695/?terms=%22Pilot%20boat%20Pet%22&match=1 |title=Terrific Eastern Hurricane.|work=New York Daily Herald |place=New York, New York|date=7 Jun 1872|page=6|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=limited|access-date=2020-12-28}} |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship launched= |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service=circa 1876 - 1885 |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=sank at sea |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship displacement=54 tons |Ship length=54 feet |Ship beam=21 feet |Ship draught= |Ship draft=10 feet, 6 inches |Ship propulsion=sails |Ship sail plan=Schooner-rigged |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship complement= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament= |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes=Signal letters, 399-20-175 }} |
Pet No. 9 was a pilot boat used by the New York Sandy Hook Pilots in the 19th century. The schooner was used to pilot vessels to and from the Port of New York and New Jersey.{{cite book|last=Russell|first=Charles Edward|date=1929| title=From Sandy Hook to 62°| location=New York|publisher= Century Co.|pages=148–153|oclc=3804485|quote =From Sandy Hook to 62;̊ being some account of the adventures, exploits and services of the old New York pilot-boat.}}
Construction and service
The pilot boat Pet was built in 1866 by Edward A. Costigan at Charlestown, Massachusetts, for Boston pilot Captain Abel T. Hayden, the father of Abel F. Hayden.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/81248967/able-t-hayden/|title=Have We A Vasa Among Us?|work=Bangor Daily Whig and Courier|place=Bangor, Maine|date=5 Feb 1855|page=2|access-date=2021-07-11|via=Newspapers.com|language=en}}{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MORB6l-IM1EC&q=Brown+%26+Lovell+sold+yachts+from+Boston |title=The American Yacht List Containing a Complete Register of the Yacht Clubs of the United States and British Provinces. |work=L. H. Biglow & Co|place=New York |date= 1874 |page=136|access-date=2021-05-28}} She was 54 tons, steered by a tiller. The sister pilot-boats, Pet and Phantom, were built on a model by Dennison J. Lawlor of East Boston, Massachusetts for the New York pilots. The vessels had a reputation for swiftness under sail.{{cite book |last=Chapelle|first=Howard I.|date= 1960|title=United States National Museum, Bulletin 219|chapter=The National Watercraft Collection|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WrcmAQAAIAAJ&dq=Phantom&pg=RA1-PA90|location= Washington, D.C.|publisher= Smithsonian Institution|page=90|isbn= |author-link=}}
The Pet was in service for a number of years in Boston.{{cite book|last=Eastman|first= Ralph M.|date=1956|title=Pilots and pilot boats of Boston Harbor|url=https://archive.org/details/pilotspilotboats00east/page/83/mode/2up?q=Pilot+Boats+Of+Boston|location=Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Second Bank-State Street Trust Company}}{{rp|p83}} The Boston pilot-boat Pet was purchased by Captain Joseph Henderson on August 29, 1872.{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-post-aug-29-1872-p-3/|title=Local Summary.|work=Boston Post|place=Boston, Massachusetts|date=29 Aug 1872|via=NewspaperArchive|url-access=limited|access-date=2020-11-03}}
The pilot-boat Pet, was registered with the Record of American and Foreign Shipping in 1876. She was listed as a pilot schooner built in 1868. The New York Pilots were listed as owners and Joseph Henderson was listed as Master.{{cite web |url=https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0179721876/779/|title=Record of American and Foreign Shipping |publisher= American Bureau of Shipping|year=1876|access-date = 2021-01-17}}
On November 21, 1889, the Pet, No. 9, stuck on the rocks in Newport, Rhode Island, harbor and sank and reported as having been abandoned.{{cite web|date=November 21, 1989|title=ASHORE NEAR NEWPORT|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50408674/?terms=%22Pilot%2BBoat%2BPet%2C%2BNo.%2B9%22|accessdate=December 26, 2019|publisher=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle}}{{cite news|date=November 20, 1889|title=A New York Pilot Boat Sunk|work=The Sun|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1889-11-21/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&index=2&rows=20&words=9+boat+No+Pet+Pilot&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=%22Pilot+boat+Pet%2C+No.+9%22&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-01-30|quote=Pilot Boat Pet, No. 9, of New York went ashore this morning on the east side of Conanicut Island, half way between Beaver Tail and Mackerel Cove.}}{{clear left}}
Specifications
The Pet was 56 tons, 78 feet long, 21½ feet beam, 8½ feet depth of hold, draws 11 feet aft, and 6 ½ feet forward, and spreads about 1,800 yards of canvas to the three lower sails.{{cite web|url=http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/New%20York%20NY%20Wilkes%20Spirit%20Of%20The%20Times/New%20York%20NY%20Spirit%20Of%20Times%201877%20Jan-Dec%20Grayscale.pdf/New%20York%20NY%20Spirit%20Of%20Times%201877%20Jan-Dec%20Grayscale%20-%200101.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=d72710b&DocId=3118387&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=6&hits=114+115+480+481+482+483+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf | title=The Pilot-Boat Pet |date=1877-02-03 |publisher= New York NY Spirit Of Times | accessdate=2013-01-11}}{{clear left}}
See also
References
File:Pilot Boat Pet, No. 9.jpg, ca. 1880.]]
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120722054142/http://www.sandyhookpilots.com/index.asp The Sandy Hook Pilots website]
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