Sandy Hook Pilots Association

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The "United New York Sandy Hook Pilot Association" was incorporated in December 1895 for the construction, buying, selling, and chartering of Pilot boats. The capital was $105,000 and directors were Paul Goodrich, John Phelan, Daniel Gillesple, Thomas Dougherty, George W. Beebe, and Henry Seguine.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93509524/incorporated/|title=Financial Matters.|work=The Standard Union|place=Brooklyn, New York|date=10 Dec 1895|page=6|access-date=2022-01-26}} The New York and New Jersey pilots were brought together into a new association. The association purchased all the pilot boats.{{cite book|last=Cunliffe|first=Tom|date=2001|title= Pilots, The World Of Pilotage Under Sail and Oar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VNsGi3nmuaQC&q=%22Sandy%20Hook%20Pilot%20Association%22|location=Brooklin, Maine|publisher=Wooden Boat Publications|isbn=9780937822692|pages=101}}

The New York and New Jersey organizations were consolidated into a new organization called the United New York and New Jersey Pilots Association. Any rivalry between the two organizations came to an end. The association purchased thirty pilot boats at fair prices from the Sandy Hook Pilots. It took eight years to make the new system work well and become profitable.{{cite book |last=Russell|first=Charles Edward|date=1929|title=From Sandy Hook to 62°|location=New York|publisher=The Century Co.|pages=378|oclc=3804485}}

On June 2, 1897, the steam pilot boat New York was built directly for the Sandy Hook Pilots' Association by shipbuilder Harlan and Hollingsworth. She could accommodate twenty-four pilots.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93522365/steam-pilot-boat/|title=Steam Pilot-Boat New York.|work=The Baltimore Sun|place=Baltimore, Maryland|date=3 Jun 1897|page=8|access-date=2022-01-26}} In May 1902, the steam pilot-boat New Jersey was built for the New York and New Jersey Pilots' Association by A. C. Brown & Sons of Tottenville, Staten Island.{{cite book|last=Allen|first=Edward L.|date=1922|title=Pilot Lore From sail to Steam |url=https://archive.org/details/pilotlorefromsai00unit/page/206/mode/2up?q=%22pilot+boat+New+Jersey%22|location=New York |publisher=The United New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Benevolent Associations}}{{rp|p206}} The Pilots' Association replaced the New Jersey with the Sandy Hook when she was sunk by the steamship SS Manchioneal in 1914.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93535707/sandy-hook-pilot-boat/|title=There's Plenty of Romance Left Among the Pilots Who Guide the great Ships In.|work=The Sun|place=New York, New York|date=20 Aug 1916|page=52|access-date=2022-01-26}}{{rp|p90-91}}

In 1903, Frank P. Van Pelt was secretary and superintendent of the New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Association.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93525784/frank-p-van-pelt/|title=Opposition To A Trunk Sewer|date=1903-12-23|work=The Morning Call|place=Paterson, New Jersey|access-date=2020-08-08}} By August 24, 1922, Van Pelt became President of the Pilots' Association and chairman of the executive committee of the New York and New Jersey Pilots Associations.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/58284415/?terms=%22Frank%2BP.%2BVan%2BPelt%22|title=How the Union of New York and New Jersey Pilots Made Piloting a Science.|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|place=Brooklyn, New York|date=1923-10-07|access-date=2020-08-03}}

On September 13, 1907, the new steamship RMS Lusitania arrived in New York on her maiden voyage. Pilot Frank Kramer, of the Sandy Hook Pilots' Association, brought the Lusitania through the shipping Ambrose Channel of the Port of New York and New Jersey.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93525575/rms-lusitania/|title=New record Established By Big Ship|date=13 Sep 1907|work=Star-Gazette|page=1|place=Elmira, New York|access-date=2020-08-08}}

• Pilots' Association For The Bay & River Delaware
• List of Northeastern U. S. Pilot Boats

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• [https://sandyhookpilots.com/ Official Website]

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