Ezra Nye

Yucatan and pilot boat Ezra Nye, No. 11, by Antonio Jacobsen.
History
United States
Name	Ezra Nye
Namesake	Ezra Nye, steamship captain of the Collins Line, SS Pacific (1849)[1]
Owner	New Jersey Pilots
Operator	J. T. Watson Benjamin J. Guinness
Builder	Wells & Webb
Launched	8 March 1859
Christened	8 March 1859
Out of service	1 February 1896
Fate	Sold
General characteristics
Class and type	schooner
Tonnage	44-tons TM
Length	70 ft 5 in (21.46 m)
Beam	19 ft 5 in (5.92 m)
Draft	9 ft 0 in (2.74 m)
Depth	7 ft 5 in (2.26 m)
Propulsion	Sail

The Ezra Nye was a 19th-century pilot boat, built in 1859 by the Wells & Webb shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for a group of New Jersey and Sandy Hook Pilots. She was one of the pilot-boats that was in the Great Blizzard of 1888, that was one of the most severe blizzards in American history. In 1896, in the age of steam, the Ezra Nye along with other pilot boats, were replaced with steamboats.