Francis Perkins Van Pelt (1861July 20, 1942) was a 19th-century
Sandy Hook Pilot
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. He is best known for being the President of the New York
Sandy Hook Pilots Association
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and chairman of the executive committee of the
New York
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Pilots' Associations.
His father was
Augustus Van Pelt a Sandy Hook pilot.
Career
Van Pelt was the subject of a book about Sandy Hook pilots that listed him as a New York Pilot in 1922 and wrote about his experienced in a number of accidents and disasters. Van Pelt was on board the pilot boat ''
Joseph F. Loubat, No. 16,'' which was struck by the
Ward Line
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steamer ''Santiago'' on April 27, 1888. He and his brother John Van Pelt were among seven men taken off the pilot-boat by the ''Santiago'' before it sank.
It was reported that as president of the New York-Sandy Hook Pilots' Association, Van Pelt was listed among 35 percent of pilots that follow in the footsteps of their fathers.
On September 19, 1915, his cousin, James H. Van Pelt, a Sandy Hook Pilot, died while boarding a Standard Oil tanker outside
Sandy Hook
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The barrier spit, approximately in length and varying from wide, is located at the north end of the Jersey Shore. It encloses the southern en ...
.
On June 19, 1935, when Van Pelt retired, he received the
Grand Lodge fifty-year medal as a member of Tompkins Lodge at the Masonic Temple in
Stapleton, Staten Island.
Death
Frank Van Pelt died on July 20, 1942, at age 81, in Staten Island,
New York City
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. He was buried at the
Moravian Cemetery in
New Dorp, Staten Island.
[New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, and New York, Staten Island, Moravian Cemetery, Interment Records, 1866-1967]
See also
*
List of pilot boats and pilots.
References
External links
The Sandy Hook Pilots website
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Maritime pilotage
Sea captains
People from Brooklyn
1861 births
1942 deaths
Burials at Moravian Cemetery
People from Staten Island