The ''George H. Warren'' was a 19th-century

pilot boat A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting. Pilot boats were once sailing boats that had to be fast because the first pilot to reach the incoming ship ...

built in 1882 by Porter Keene at Weymouth, Massachusetts, to replace the ''Edwin Forrest,'' No. 4, which was sold to the

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pilots. The ''George H. Warren,'' originally belonged to the Boston pilot fleet but in 1889, she was purchase by a group of New York pilots. She and her crew were lost in the great blizzard of 1895.

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The ''George H. Warren'' was a

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rigged two-masted pilot-boat, built in 1882 by Porter Keene at North Weymouth, Massachusetts, to replace the ''Edwin Forrest,'' No. 4, which was sold to the

pilots. She was launched on December 31, 1882, from the Porter Keene

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at Weymouth. John Harry Jeffery was the captain. The ''Warren'' No. 4, went on her first cruise on February 14, 1883. She was owned by Captain John Harry Jeffries and other Boston pilots: George H. Warren, John P. Spauulding, John M. Ward, Walter W. Jeffrey, Catherine Jeffrey, Hayden Sargent, Charlotte C. A. Archer, Timothy Davis, John M. Davis and Charles L. Davis. She was named for George H. Warren, one of the owners who also owned the Boston keel cutter-rigged yacht ''Maggie''. The ''George H. Warren,'' was registered as a pilot schooner with the ‘’Record of American and Foreign Shipping,’’ in 1884 and 1894. Her ship master and owner was John Harry Jeffery; built in 1883 at North Weymouth, Massachusetts; and her hailing port was the Port of Boston. Her dimensions were 70.9 ft. in length; 20 ft. breadth of beam; 8.2 ft. depth of hold; and 50-tons

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. On June 7, 1889, the ''George H. Warren,'' No. 4. was purchased for $9,250 by Captain J. O'Sullivan and a group of New York pilots that had lost the ''

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'' that was run down by the French Line steamship ''La Normandie'' on May 19, 1889. The new owner, Captain J. O'Sullivan, made the arrangements for the transfer. William S. McLaughlin was an apprentice on the ''George H. Warren,'' No. 5 in the winter of 1894. He was supposed to be on the ''Warren'' leaving Tompkinsville, Staten Island in February 1895, when one of the pilots told him he could not go to sea because he had an abscess on his right hand.

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On February 7, 1895, the Sandy Hook pilot boat ''George H. Warren,'' No. 5, went missing just before the great blizzard. She had six pilots on board, a boatkeeper, cook, and two seamen. The pilots were, William Murphy, Francis Kelly, Thomas F. Pennea, Patrick Walsh, George D. Samson, and Walter Berry that were part owners of the boat. On March 15, 1895, no news had been reported about the lost boat. Captain J. O'Sullivan, an owner that was not on the ''Warren'' asked the Board of Pilot Commissioners for permission to build a replacement boat.

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