The pilot-boat Fannie, was built in 1860 and launched on July 12, 1860 at the Edward F. Williams shipyard, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for the New York and Sandy Hook Pilots.

The pilots believed that the CSS Tallahassee was working her way toward the Nantucket Shoals in the Atlantic Ocean.

[5] The Fannie was registered with the Record of American and Foreign Shipping from 1877 to 1885 to Captain C. H. Wolsey as Master and to the New York Pilots as owners.

Captain Wolsey was in command and reported that the brig is in the path of inward and outward bound vessels.

[11] On April 13, 1894, Pilot Henry A. DeVere was lost while boarding the Norwegian steamer Banan from the pilot-boat Fannie, No.

[12][13] On February 1, 1896, the New York Pilots discarded sixteen sailboats and moved them to the Erie Basin in Brooklyn.