Hermann Oelrichs (pilot boat)

Pilot Boat Hermann Oelrichs, No. 1.
History
United States
Name	Hermann Oelrichs
Namesake	Hermann Oelrichs, American shipping businessman
Owner	N. Y. Pilots
Operator	Pilot Speitzer Michael Lyons
Builder	Moses Adams shipyard at Essex, Massachusetts
Launched	May 12, 1894
Out of service	July 15, 1904
Fate	Sold
General characteristics
Class and type	Schooner
Displacement	73 tons
Length	87 ft 0 in (26.52 m)
Beam	22 ft 0 in (6.71 m)
Draught	9 ft 4 in (2.84 m)
Propulsion	schooner sail
Sail plan	74 ft 0 in (22.56 m) mast length 72 ft 0 in (21.95 m) mast length

The Hermann Oelrichs was a 19th-century Sandy Hook Pilot boat, built in 1894 by Moses Adams at Essex, Massachusetts for a group of New York Pilots. She helped transport New York City maritime pilots between inbound or outbound ships coming into the New York Harbor. The Herman Oelrichs was said to be the fastest of the New York pilot fleet. She was built to replace the pilot boat Hope, that was wrecked in 1890.