Friend (pilot boat)
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The Friend was a 19th-century pilot boat built by Daniel D. Kelley & Holmes East Boston shipyard in 1848 for Boston pilots. She helped transport Boston maritime pilots between inbound or outbound ships coming into the Boston Harbor. The Friend was one of the last of the low sided, straight sheared schooners built in the 1840s for Boston pilots. The second Boston pilot boat Friend was built in 1887. Her name came from the older Friend that was in the service in the late 1840s. Captain Thomas Cooper sold the Friend to New York pilots in 1893. Cooper replaced the Friend with the pilot-boat Columbia in 1894.
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Pilot Boat Friend No. 7; photograph by Nathaniel Stebbins, c. 1888. | |
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Name | Friend |
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Cost | $8,000 (1887) |
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Out of service |
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Fate | Sold |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | schooner |
Tonnage | 68 TM |
Length | 60 ft 9 in (18.52 m) |
Beam | 17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) |
Depth | 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
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