[6] On August 14, 1843, Captain G. Wright, of the pilot boat Virginia, was 45 miles east of Cape Henlopen, when he spoke to the brig Wm.

[7] On July 17, 1848, the New York pilot boat Virginia spoke to the British Brig Sisters that was short on provisions.

[8] On October 26, 1850, the pilot boat Virginia, near the Narrows, was returning from a cruise when she was struck on her starboard side by an outbound schooner causing damage to her rigging.

[10] On October 9, 1859, John Burke, a native of Germany, was a hand on board the pilot boat Virginia when he died of exhaustion.

3, ran ashore in thick fog and gale ten miles east of Rockaway Shoals.

The boat was owned by pilots Walter Brewer, Thomas Morley, William Rock, George Burgess, and Ralph Altkins.

Van Dusen Bros. shipyard at the foot of Sixteenth street, East River.