Gracie was a 19th-century Boston pilot boat built in 1869 at the Edward A. Costigan shipyard in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
[1][2] The ship Independent from a foreign port, collided with the pilot boat Gracie in the Boston harbor on October 19, 1879.
[2] On November 21, 1883, the pilot boat Gracie came across the steam yacht Mermaid from New Haven, Connecticut, bound for Jacksonville, Florida, anchored off Frying Pan Shoals full of water.
[5] In 1884, Conrad Freitag painted a picture of the pilot boat Gracie, which was oil on canvas.
The men were rescued by the pilot boat but Charlie St. George almost sank before being able to catch a rope and be pulled on board.