Pilot boat Elbridge T. Gerry
| |
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | Elbridge T. Gerry |
Namesake | Elbridge Thomas Gerry |
Owner |
|
Cost | $13,000 |
Launched | August 24, 1888 |
Out of service | December 13, 1896 |
Renamed | Kwasind |
Homeport | Port of New York |
Fate | Sold |
General characteristics | |
Tons burthen | 62-tons[1] |
Length | 80 ft 0 in (24.38 m) |
Beam | 21 ft 8 in (6.60 m) |
Propulsion | schooner sail |
Sail plan |
|
Elbridge T. Gerry was a 19th-century New York Sandy Hook pilot boat built in 1888 at the Robinson & Waterhouse shipyard in City Island, Bronx. She was named in honor of Elbridge Thomas Gerry, a commodore of the New York Yacht Club. She served as a pilot boat from 1888 to 1896, when she was sold for offshore yachting cruises. Her name was changed to Kwasind, after the strongman in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha.
{{cite journal}}
: Cite journal requires |journal=
(help)