USS Louise No. 2

2 was built as a civilian schooner-rigged pilot boat of the same name in 1900 by Ambrose A. Martin at East Boston, Massachusetts.

8, that washed ashore at Sand Hills in Scituate, Massachusetts in the great 1898 Portland Gale.

[3] On October 17, 1900, Dolliver was on the Louise when he boarded the Cunard Line steamship Saxonia, with two pilots.

On return to the pilot boat, Erick Ahlquist and William Weaver almost drowned when a wave filled the yawl with water and overturned it.

[4] Pilots Joseph Fawcett, William V. Abbott, John C. Fawcett and Watson S. Dolliver sent a letter, that was posted in the Boston Globe, thanking Captain Pritchard and his officers and crew of the Saxonia for their heroic and successful efforts.

2, crashed into the British tramp steamship Pinar del Rio, in bad weather near the lighthouse channel.

[7] 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.

[10][11] On July 15, 1925, the pilot boat Louise was sold to W. R. Farrell of Long Wharf and converted into a yacht.

Pilot Boat Louise, No. 2
John C. Fawcett (Boston pilot)