Commodore Bateman, was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat built in 1888 at the C. & R. Poillon shipyard in south Brooklyn.

11 was launched on July 18, 1888, at the C. & R. Poillon shipyard at the foot of Clinton street, in south Brooklyn.

The christening was done by Margie Bateman, the Commodore's 7-year-old daughter, by breaking a sacrificial bottle of champagne over the bows.

[4]: p65 On April 13, 1889, during a dense fog, the Hamburg Line steamship Suevia ran into the pilot-boat Commodore Bateman, No.

Pilot John Handran and the cook Henry Halford were drowned trying to escape the sinking boat.