She had a popular shorter bow overhang, similar to the celebrated yacht America She was driven ashore on the South Shoals near Barnegat Island in 1865.

6, was built by George Steers in 1852, at the William H. Brown shipyard in East River, New York City, for a company of New Jersey pilots.

[1] George Steers was launched by moonlight at 12 o'clock on August 9, 1852, at the William H. Brown shipyard at the foot of twelfth street, East River.

Howard I. Chapelle, an American naval architect, considered George Steers, as a "fine example of that designer's final ideas of what a pilot schooner should be."

6, was launched from the shipyard of Edward F. Williams, at Greenpoint, at a cost of $21,000, to replace the George Steers, No.