[3] The pilot boat Pet was built in 1866 by Edward A. Costigan at Charlestown, Massachusetts, for Boston pilot Captain Abel T. Hayden, the father of Abel F.

[6] The sister pilot-boats, Pet and Phantom, were built on a model by Dennison J. Lawlor of East Boston, Massachusetts for the New York pilots.

[6]: p83  The Boston pilot-boat Pet was purchased by Captain Joseph Henderson on August 29, 1872.

[8] The pilot-boat Pet, was registered with the Record of American and Foreign Shipping in 1876.

9, stuck on the rocks in Newport, Rhode Island, harbor and sank and reported as having been abandoned.