USS Hope (1861)
US dispatch boat and pilot boat
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Hope |
Owner |
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Operator | Captain Marshall, Thomas Morley (1866-1891) |
Builder | Henry Steers |
Launched | March 11, 1861 |
Acquired | 29 November 1861 |
Commissioned | 14 December 1861 |
Decommissioned | 6 September 1865 |
Fate | Wrecked on Sandy Hook Point March 13, 1891 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Schooner |
Displacement | 134 tons |
Length | 90 ft 0 in (27.43 m) |
Beam | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
Depth | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
Propulsion | schooner sail |
Sail plan |
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Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Complement | 25 |
Armament | one 20-pounder gun |
Notes | Six berths, captain's stateroom, 400 gallon water tank, ice box. |
USS Hope was a 19th-century wooden
Service history
Yacht Hope was launched from the shipyard of Henry Steers at Greenpoint, Brooklyn on March 11, 1861. She was designed and built by Henry Steers for Captain Thomas Boynton Ives, Esq, of Providence in 1861. A large crowd of witnesses were at the scene including Henry Steers and Moses H. Grinnell.[1] She was christened "Hope," a symbol of the feeling in every pilot about their boat.[2]
Hope, a wooden schooner, was purchased by the Navy 29 November 1861 from Thomas B. Ives, and commissioned at
While patrolling off
Postwar civil service
Hope No. 1, became a New York City Pilot Boat for the New York Pilots. Her captains were Captain Marshall and Thomas Morley.[5] The Hope was registered with the Index to Ship Registers from 1877 to 1890 to the N. Y. Pilots and Captain Thomas Morely as master.[6] On December 19, 1866, pilot-boat Hope, No. 1, accepted a race with pilot-boat John D. Jones, No. 15, from New York across the Atlantic to Cowes for $50,000.[7] ON January 15, 1867, the Commissioners of Pilots issued an order forbidding the entrance of any pilot-boat into a contest, which was a disappointment to the pilots.[8]
On October 9, 1873, the Hope, was one of the boats that participated in the Ocean
New York pilot-boat Herman Oelrichs, No. 1, was built in 1894 in Essex, Connecticut, for the New York pilots, to replace the Hope, wrecked in 1890. The Herman Oelrichs was the "fastest of the New York pilot fleet."[11]
References
- ^ "Yachting Intelligence. Launch Of The Yacht Hope". The New York Daily Herald. New York, New York. 1861-03-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ "Yachting Intelligence". The New York herald. New York, New York. 1861-03-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ Kern, Florence (1988). The United States Revenue Cutters in the Civil War. p. 87. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
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ignored (help) - ^ a b Naval History And Heritage Command (1 Apr 2020). "Hope I (Schooner)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History And Heritage Command. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ "The American Yacht List: Containing a Complete Register of the Yacht Clubs, List of Pilot Boats, Port of New York". 1874. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
- ^ "Index to Ship Registers 1877". Mystic Seaport Museum. New York. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ The Evening Star (Washington D.C.)
- ^ The Pilot Boat Ocean Race.
- ^ Loubat, Joseph Florimond (1887). A yachtsman's scrap book: or, The ups and downs of yacht racing.
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ignored (help) - ^ New York Times, July 31, 1887
- ^ ISBN 9780937822692.
- ^ "Pilot Boat Hope, No. 1". The New York Times. New York, New York. 1890-04-20. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
- ^ "Wrecked By Fog. Pilot Boat Hope, No. 1, a Total Loss on Sandy Hook Point". The Evening World. New York, New York. 1891-03-13. Retrieved 2020-08-13.