The ''Joseph Pulitzer'' was a 19th-century Sandy Hook Pilots, Sandy Hook pilot boat, built by Moses Adams in 1894 at Essex, Massachusetts for New York City, New York Pilots. She was a replacement for the Pilot Boat Edward Cooper (pilot boat), ''Edward Cooper,'' that sank off Sandy Hook in 1892. The ''Joseph Pulitzer'' was one of the finest and best equipped boats in the service. She was named in honor of Joseph Pulitzer, a New York newspaper publisher. In 1896, when New York pilot boats were moving to steamboats, she was sold to the Oregon Pilots Association.

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The pilot schooner ''Joseph Pulitzer,'' was built by the Moses Adams shipyard in early 1894 at Essex, Massachusetts for the New York captains Jacob M. Heath, pilots John Ronayne, Thomas Marks, Frederick Ryerson, Martin Ryerson and Jacob P. Lockman. She was a replacement for the Pilot Boat Edward Cooper (pilot boat), ''Edward Cooper,'' No. 20, that sank off Sandy Hook in December 1892. She was launched on 21 February 1894 and christened the Joseph Pulitzer. The boat number "20" was painted as a large number on her mainsail, that identified the boat as belonging to the Sandy Hook Pilots. The ''Pulitzer'' was one of the finest and best equipped boats in the service. Her furnishings were of hard wood and had a water tank that could carry 16,000 gallons of water. She was named in honor of Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), a newspaper publisher, and owner of the yacht ''SY Liberty, Liberty''. The ''Joseph Pulitzer'' was registered with the ''Record of American and Foreign Shipping'', from 1895 to 1900. Captain Jacob M. Heath was listed as Master (naval), Master of the boat. Her dimensions were 97 ft. in length; 22 ft. breadth of beam; 9.4 ft. depth of hold; and 73-tons Thames Measurement, Tonnage. From 1899 to 1900 her hailing port changed from New York to Astoria, Oregon, her Master was Captain H. A. Harvey, and her owner was P. C. Cordine. In July 1897, the pilot-boat ''Joseph Pulitzer'' rescued part of the crew and passengers from the schooner ''Georgiana Young.'' The ship was stranded in an easterly storm on Romer Shoal Light, Roamer Shoal.

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On 1 February 1896, the New York Pilots discarded sixteen sailboats and moved them to the Red Hook, Brooklyn, Erie Basin in Brooklyn. They were replaced with steam pilot boats. The ''Joseph Pulitzer'' was sold for $7,000. In January 1898, Captain P. C. Cordiner sailed the Joseph Pulitzer around the Horn of Africa to Astoria, Oregon. She was purchased by the Oregon Pilots Association. Captain W. A. Harvey and a crew of six Norwegian sailors sailed her from Hoboken, New Jersey to Oregon. In 1903, the Oregon bar pilots paid $13,000 for the Joseph Pulitzer. In March 1909, the Port of Portland purchased the pilot schooner Joseph Pulitzer from the Columbia River bar pilot Association for $12,000. On 18 December 1920, the ''Joseph Pulitzer'' was in Alaska, as a mail carrier between Seward, Alaska, Seward and the Aleutians and sank in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Aniakchak Bay, Alaska. There were no casualties.

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