The name of the boat was nominated by the friends of Alexander Turney Stewart, the dry goods millionaire businessman.

[4] On May 22, 1866, the pilot boat A. T. Stewart, was in a collision with the Delaware schooner Transit, twenty miles east of Cape May Lightship.

The court ruled that both boats were equally responsible for the collision and should share the cost for damages.

[6] The court also made the decision to remove the wreck of the A. T. Stewart, from the channel outside Sandy Hook.

[7] On November 30, 1869, the A. T. Stewart sank when she came in collision with the steamship Scotia off Sandy Hook, New Jersey.