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Sandy Hook Pilots
Group of Sandy Hook Pilots
Nickname
Maritime pilot or Harbor pilot
Named after
Sandy Hook, barrier spit
Formation
1694
Founded at
New York City
Headquarters
Staten Island
Location
New York/New Jersey, US
Origins
A group of men to ensure safe passage of ships into the New York Harbor
Services
Piloting
Affiliations
Sandy Hook Pilots Association
Sandy Hook Pilots are licensed maritime pilots that are members of the Sandy Hook Pilots Association for the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Hudson River, and Long Island Sound. Sandy Hook pilots guide oceangoing vessels, passenger liners, freighters, and tankers in and out of the harbor.[1] The peninsulas of Sandy Hook, and Rockaway in Lower New York Bay define the southern entrance to the port at the Atlantic Ocean.
SandyHookPilots are licensed maritime pilots that are members of the SandyHookPilots Association for the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Hudson...
A SandyHookpilot is a licensed maritime pilot for the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Hudson River, and Long Island Sound. SandyHookpilots have...
Reading Railroad and scrapped in 2008 SS New York (1897 pilot cutter), built for the SandyHookPilots, later commissioned as USS Esselen (AT-147) SS New York (1916)...
Ambrose Light which doubled as a staging area for pilot boats, most notably the SandyHookPilots. Prior to the construction of the light tower in 1967...
A pilot station is an onshore headquarters for maritime pilots, or a place where pilots can be hired from. To get from a pilot station to an approaching...
raised from 155 feet (47.2 m) to 215 feet (65.5 m). The SandyHookPilots are licensed maritime pilots that go aboard oceangoing vessels, passenger liners...
world. It licenses and regulates up to 75 pilots of the SandyHookPilots. They are called "SandyHookpilots" because they maneuver ships across a large...
has media related to Pilot boats. The SandyHookPilots website Digital Commonwealth Pilot Boats website Current List of Pilot Boat Manufacturers worldwide...
LV-16 Allen, Edward L. (1922). Pilot Lore From sail to Steam. New York: The United New York and New Jersey SandyHookPilots Benevolent Associations. p. 75...