In 1896, in the age of steam, the Ezra Nye, along with other pilot boats, were replaced with steamboats.

[3] The Jesse Carll was registered as a New York Pilot Schooner with the Record of American and Foreign Shipping, from 1886 to 1900.

Her dimensions were 81 ft. in length; 23 ft. breadth of beam; 10 ft. depth (deep); 5 ft. draught; and 61-tons, making her the largest vessel in the Sandy Hook service.

[6] In the summer of 1888, author and New York newspaper editor Charles Edward Russell talked about being on the pilot boat Edward F. Williams and racing with the pilot boat Jesse Carll, No.

As both yawls came to the ladder, pilot Moller from the Williams went up the side of the steamer first to salute the captain.

[7]: p27 On 1 February 1896, the New York Pilots discarded sixteen sailboats and moved them to the Erie Basin in Brooklyn.