2, was launched on 18 August 1858, by Edward F. Williams from his Greenpoint, Brooklyn shipyard to replace the Jacob L. Westervelt, that was run down by the Bremen steamer Saxonia on 21 April 1857.

On October 9, 1873, the Edmund Blunt was one of the boats that participated in the Cap May Regatta, which was a race from Owl's Head Point around to Cape May Lighthouse in New Jersey, and back to the Sandy Hook Lightship.

[7] On April 8, 1883, the pilot-boat Edmund Blunt, found the brig Mary Gibbs, beaten by a hurricane and in bad shape.

The Blunt towed the brig to the Highlands (of Navesink) and handed her over to the tugboat Indian, which brought her into the port of New York.

The North German Lloyd steamship, Rhein, was in reach and the pilot boats raced to her side.

[1]: p66 On February 1, 1896, the New York Pilots discarded sixteen sailboats and moved them to the Erie Basin in Brooklyn.