Edmund Driggs (pilot boat)

The Edmund Driggs was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat built in 1864 at the Edward F. Williams shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

[1] The new pilot boat took her trial trip on March 5, 1864, with Captain Augustus H. Van Pelt in command.

She was assigned to the following pilots: Richard Bowen, James H. Tenure, Jacob Vanderbilt, Edward Hilliker, John W. Murray, and Captain Augustus H. Van Pelt.

[5] On March 27, 1889, the Edmund Driggs brought into Cape May a life boat and wreckage from the gunboat Conserva, which was lost at sea near the coast of Maryland.

[7] On February 1, 1896, in the age of steam and electricity, the New York Pilots discarded sixteen sailboats and moved them to the Erie Basin in Brooklyn.