The Sandy Hook pilot boat Enchantress was launched on November 14, 1851 from the shipyard of Westervelt & McKay, at the foot of Seventh Street.

Governor John Adams Dix appointed Maginn as harbourmaster and the Enchantress was sold to the Sandy Hook pilots.

[5] On April 1, 1884, the Enchantress, one of the oldest pilot-boats in the service, went adrift in a winter storm when she hit the schooner Sarah and Lucy.

Pilots John Martineau and Frank Van Pelt jumped into the water and were picked up by the schooner and brought into port.

[6] On April 21, 1886, the Enchantress, towed into Stapleton, Staten Island a yawl that belonged to the schooner, most likely the three-masted coal schooner Charles H. Morse that collided and sank the Cunard Line passenger steamer SS Oregon, off Fire Island with 845 people on board.