On October 1, 1906, he went to the funeral of his friend Captain James L. Smith who died, at age 56 at his home in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Pilots McLean and James H. Reid, Jr., were assigned to the new boat when she was launched from the shipyard of John Bishop of Gloucester, Massachusetts on March 9, 1897.

[5][6] On April 1, 1898, Captain McLean was in command of the pilot boat America when he rescued the crew of the Nova Scotia vessel Genius, 18 miles off the Boston Light.

1, and boarding the steamship Linchenden from Nicaragua, reported seeing part of the wreckage from the ship Virginian, which was 14 miles from the Highland Light, off cape Cod.

along with James M. Murdock, John H. Low, C. K. Nelson, F. J. Gevalt, and William McMillian.

[13] McLean died on June 24, 1930, in Everett, Massachusetts, at age 71 years.