The new pilot boat Ezra Nye was launched on 8 March 1859 from Wells & Webb shipyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

[2] Ezra Nye, was the name of a steamship captain of the Collins Line, SS Pacific (1849), who died in 1866 of Newark, New Jersey.

She stayed close to Sandy Hook, but when the storm hit the pilots decided to sail through the Narrows to the Bay Ridge, where they thought she would be safe.

The pilot boat Elbridge T. Gerry was launched on August 24, 1888, to take the place of the Ezra Nye that was wrecked in the blizzard.

[6] On May 29, 1896, the Ezra Nye, was made into a cruising yacht and sailed to the Sorrento, Southern Italy on the Bay of Naples for the American novelist, Francis Marion Crawford.