In January 1853, the pilot boat Ellwood Walter was built by Edward F. Williams at Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

7, belonging to the Merchant Pilot Association, went down the bay with a large party of guests on board.

The schooner was named after Ellwood Walter, the President of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company.

Her dimensions were 71.6 ft. in length on deck; 19.10 ft. breadth of beam; 7.6 ft. depth of hold; and 90-tons Tonnage.

It lists the owners of the Elwood Walter, and says "this boat is also hard and fast at Staten Island."

7, helped take the officers and crew off the ship Wabamo, in the New York harbor, when it caught fire while going down the bay outside Sandy Hook.

The officers and crew were taken off by the pilot boat Elwood Walter, saving little more than the clothing on their backs.

7, was launched from the shipyard of E. F. Williams, at Greenpoint, Brooklyn on 27 February 1864, as a replacement for the Elwood Walter No.