The David T. Leahy was a 19th-century two-masted pilot boat schooner, built in 1890 at the C. & R. Poillon shipyard in New York City.

In 1899, the David T. Leahy was renamed the James Gordon Bennett when the pilots consolidated their business.

Speeches were made by the Assistant District Attorney John Clark, Brooklyn Major Joseph Powell, David T. Leahy, New Jersey Pilot Commissioners Captain Robert Simonson, and others.

The tugboat dropped the line and the boat sailed out into the bay, but because of the lack of wind, she was towed back.

5 collided in a thick fog with the Royal Phelps Carroll's Yacht Navahoe 250 miles off Sandy Hook, New Jersey.

[6] On 6 Nov 1897, Captain Gus Tennessen, one of the oldest members of the New Jersey Pilots' Association, died of a heart attack on board the pilot-boat David T. Leahy off Sandy Hook.