USS Liberty III

[10] On April 10, 1902, Bruce B. McLean, James M. Murdock, John H. Low, C. K. Nelson, F. J. Gevalt, and William McMillian were pallbearers at the funeral for Captain E. G. Martin.

[11] On October 8, 1916, Watson Shields Dolliver was on the pilot boat Liberty when he helped The Boston Globe transfer a reporter from the pilot boat to board the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company steamer SS Kansan that was headed for Boston with news about the German U-53 U-boat.

3 was presented by the pilots of Boston Harbor, some of which were Captains John H. Low, James H. Reid Jr., Joseph Fawcett, Nathaniel W.

[13] On 10 September 1917 the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, the Boston Pilots Relief Society, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England and based at Boston, Massachusetts, Liberty III served for the rest of World War I as a harbor entrance patrol boat, guiding the movements of ships that navigated the defensive sea area of the port of Boston.

The Navy decommissioned Liberty III on 8 January 1919 and returned her to the Boston Pilots Relief Society the same day.

On 8 September 1934, the Liberty was purchased by Roscoe H. Prior, president of the American Stevedoring Corporation of Boston.

Pilot Boat Liberty, No. 3
Boston Pilot Captain John H. Low