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Isaac Webb (pilot boat)
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The Isaac Webb was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat built in 1860 by Webb & Bell for the New York and Sandy Hook pilots. She received a reward by the Board of Pilot Commissioners of New York for saving three sailors from the wreck of the bark Sarah, that was caught up in a hurricane. The Webb was shipwrecked in a dense fog at Quonochontaug Beach, Long Island in 1879. She was replaced by pilot boat Columbia.
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Name | Isaac Webb |
Namesake | Isaac Webb, shipbuilder |
Owner | N. Y. Pilots |
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Builder | Webb & Bell shipyard, Brooklyn, New York |
Cost | $8,500 |
Launched | October 31, 1860 |
Out of service | July 27, 1879 |
Fate | Sank |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | schooner |
Tonnage | 96 TM |
Length | 70 ft 0 in (21.34 m)[1] |
Beam | 20 ft 0 in (6.10 m) |
Depth | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
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