After twelve years of service, the steamship SS Manchioneal rammed and sank her off Ambrose Lightship in 1914.

As a result, the New Jersey and the New York, took up the task of doing pilot work at the Sandy Hook lightship.

[1]: p90 On 30 September 1912, Captain John Lyle from the pilot-boat New Jersey, rescued eight men from the motorboat Dewey, when their boat had drifted ten miles from the Sandy Hook Light.

[4] On 10 July 1914, after only twelve years of pilot service, in a dense fog, the United Fruit steamship Manchioneal, rammed and sank the New Jersey, off the Ambrose Lightship.

The steam pilot boat Sandy Hook, was purchased to replace the lost New Jersey.