Pilot lore; from sail to steam . se the sunken Britisher and when this was — 62 f \ J V < -J \J u -e- tfte f \ 1 w J \ 1 /.\ / ., /z\ 0U^OU*3 j .. ,. accomplished the lightship was removed. Shipping interests peti-tioned the government to re-establish the lightship ;it this point andso came into being the Scotland lightship, named after the steamerthat was sunk at that point many long years ago. Likewise cameabout the naming of Quickstep Buoy, near the West Bank, in theLower Bay of New York Harbor. Many of the thousands of commuters and excursionists who pass the buoy during each year prob-
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . se the sunken Britisher and when this was — 62 f \ J V < -J \J u -e- tfte f \ 1 w J \ 1 /.\ / ., /z\ 0U^OU*3 j .. ,. accomplished the lightship was removed. Shipping interests peti-tioned the government to re-establish the lightship ;it this point andso came into being the Scotland lightship, named after the steamerthat was sunk at that point many long years ago. Likewise cameabout the naming of Quickstep Buoy, near the West Bank, in theLower Bay of New York Harbor. Many of the thousands of commuters and excursionists who pass the buoy during each year prob-ably think that the danger signal was named after a popular formof dance, particularly in vogue years ago. As a matter of fact, thebuoy commemorates the sinking of the American bark Quickstep,after being run down by a British steamer outward bound. After thewreck of the bark was removed, a bell-buoy was placed on the spotto mark a shoal that had formed there and it has ever since thenbeen called the Quickstep Buoy. T7 — 68. « 2 |0h ^j .5 i-sj to ?*- <; *—?, m c °s r. i^. ^ w o < 0 -c Oh to O £ 53 Z ^ § HH ^: l-J ~- ?-* Kj s to l-H S -S: Oh 5 a < Z < 53 4i to5i a ~5 Bq p ?^ s to c* -— ;— O L_ C5 <R A CI<Ng FOR &£ SHIP IN the old days of sail, when each pilot boat operated independ-ently, there existed the keenest rivalry between the various pilotteams, or companies, as they were sometimes called. Each pilotboat was owned by a distinct group of pilots, some of the boatsattached to the New York Sandy Hook pilot service and some to theNew Jersey Sandy Hook pilot service. It was always a questionwho would get to the incoming vessel first, and then it remained withthe captain of the ship to select his pilot boat—although the captaingenerally picked out the boat that had come under his lee ahead ofthe others. As a result of this condition of affairs many a hotlycontested and thrilling race has been sailed off Sandy Hook withvictory meaning but the ch
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