[3] She was the largest of her build and rig in the United States and noted for her seaworthiness and heavy weather performance.

The excursion went to Minot's Ledge Light, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, Massachusetts.

3, was struck and sank off Minot's Ledge Light by the Gloucester fishing schooner Horace B. Parker.

[8] The owners of the D. J. Lawlor, filed charges in the U. S. District Court against the fishing schooner Horace B. Parker, for damages for the loss of the pilot-boat, which was valued at $12,000.

[9] In 1896, the 'Liberty was built by John Bishop at his shipyard in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to take the place of the ill-fated pilot-boat D. J. Lawlor.