Edmund Driggs (pilot boat)
The Edmund Driggs was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat built in 1864 at the Edward F. Williams shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She was built to replace the pilot boat Elwood Walter. The schooner was used to pilot vessels to and from the Port of New York. She survived the Great Blizzard of 1888. In the age of steam, she was sold in 1896.
Pilot boat Edmund Driggs, painting by Conrad Freitag. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Edmund Driggs |
| Namesake | Edmund Smith Driggs |
| Owner | New York Pilots |
| Operator | A. Bourne, Richard Bowen, James H. Tenure, Jacob Vanderbilt, Edward Hilliker, John W. Murray, Captain Augustus H. Van Pelt |
| Route | New York Harbor |
| Builder | Edward F. Williams |
| Launched | February 27, 1864 |
| In service | March 5, 1864 |
| Out of service | February 1, 1896 |
| Fate | Sold |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 42-tons TM |
| Length | 69 ft 9 in (21.26 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Depth | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
| Propulsion | schooner sail |
| Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
| Complement | not known |
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