The James Gordon Bennett was a 19th-century two-masted pilot boat, built in 1870 at the Lawrence & Foulks shipyard.

[1] By 1874, the James Gordon Bennett was listed as a New Jersey pilot boat with Daniel C. Chapman as the captain.

[3] On January 26, 1884, Captain Henry Beebe, at age 61, one of the pilots of the James Gordon Bennett died at his home in Brooklyn, New York.

[5] On November 8, 1885, the James Gordon Bennett picked up the passengers of the pilot boat Mary and Catherine that was struck the British tramp trade steamship Haverton.

6, surrounded by ice near Sea Bright, New Jersey, went ashore and broke up with both of her masts gone and part of her deck was missing.

[7][8] On August 7, 1893, a new pilot boat James Gordon Bennett was launched at the C. & R. Poillon shipyard at the foot of Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New York.

[10] On April 2, 1895, pilot W. Crocker of the James Gordon Bennett, was in command when he spotted the what was left of the steamer City of Haverhill, off Barnegat, New Jersey, and the body of her captain, W. P. Watrous.

[13] On October 18, 1901, the New Jersey pilots purchased the Hermit to replace the David T. Leahy that was run down by the steamship Alene.

[14] On December 16, 1906, in bad weather, the Ward Line steamship Monterey ran into the New Jersey pilot boat Hermit, No.