1, was launched on September 24, 1873 from the C. & R. Poillon shipyardat the foot of Bridge Street in Brooklyn, New York.

[3] Negus was registered with the Record of American and Foreign Shipping from 1876 to 1900 with Captain William Lewis as master and N. J.

The race was sponsored by Joseph F. Loubat, who was a yachtsman, that offered the Bennett cup and $1,000 for first place.

The Webb, had rescued the crew of the whaling bark Sarah, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, on October 16, 1878, forty miles south of Black Island with three survivors.

1, picked up sixty bags of mail from the Cunard Line passenger steamer SS Oregon, that sank after being hit by a three-masted coal schooner off Fire Island with 845 people on board.

Captain William Lewis of the Negus picked up a mail bag that contained $250,000 of Erie second consolidated bonds, several boxes or oranges and a satchel belonging to G. S. Frances.

Pilot John Hall came back to port on the White Star freighter Cevic.

[15] At the time when sail was abandoned for steam, the T. S. Negus was sold to Captain Joseph McClure as a pilot-boat.

Captain Joseph McClure and a company of eight men left New Haven, Connecticut, to prospect for gold.

[17] On June 8, 1898, pilot-boat T. S. Negus arrived in San Francisco after she returned from Cook Inlet in south-central Alaska, where she disembarked twenty-five passengers.