The Ebe W. Tunnell was a 19th-century Delaware pilot schooner built in 1887 in Brooklyn, New York.

In the age of steam, Ebe W. Tunnell had outlived its usefulness and was sold as a houseboat for a group of men working in the Chesapeake Bay in 1909.

The E. W. Tunnell, was registered as a pilot Schooner with the ‘’Record of American and Foreign Shipping,’’ from 1888 to 1900.

She was listed as being built in 1887 at Brooklyn, New York; and her hailing port was the Lewes, Delaware.

Captain John Barnes and James K. Rowland were two pilots aboard the Tunnell.