Identifier: pilotlorefromsai00unit (find matches)
Title: Pilot lore; from sail to steam
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: United New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Benevolent Associations National Service Bureau Allen, Edward L
Subjects: Shipping -- New York (State) New York Pilots and pilotage -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Harbor
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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into the pilot rescue craft. Pilot Wall kept his yawl back, saying that the pilots would save all hands provided the passengers kept their heads. As many as could comfortably and safely be taken into the yawl were transferred to the Adams and then the yawl came back for another load, the two life-boats from the Adams alternating in the work of rescue. Seven to nine men were carried on each trip, so that the work of transferring the 150 excursionists and the crew of the Moore took several hours to accomplish. But it was done without accident, the last man to leave the ship with Captain Morrell and his mate, who had, in the meantime, returned from Sandy Hook in the Moore's yawl, being an accordion player who had been engaged to furnish the music for the fishermen on their excursion and who kept playing She may have seen better days, as the last of the rescued were taken off the Moore. As the player himself was being transferred into the rescue yawl he sang Say au revoir but not good-bye. — 33 —
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Loss of the SS Oregon,, off Fire Island, March 1886. All hands rescued by pilot boat Phantom - On both occasions the pilots had come on the spot at the psychological moment, as they had, eleven years before, come upon the Oregon, wrecked within sight of land and when the pilots rescued seven hundred passengers and crew of that ill-fated steamship and brought them safely into the harbor on the valiant little Phantom which pilot boat, two years later, met her own doom in the great blizzard of 1888, with the loss of six of her brave company. William O. Inglis, a reporter on the New York World, vividly described, at the time, the terrors of that blizzard as experienced on a pilot boat,tense hours when the brave hearts who had saved the lives of somany of their fellows found themselves without rescuers and were either cast ashore or sent down into the dark waters during those fearsome days at sea. The Oregon disaster w

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