Jacob A. Westervelt (pilot boat)
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 Pilot Boat Jacob A. Westervelt, No. 19. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Jacob A. Westervelt |
| Namesake | Jacob Aaron Westervelt, shipbuilder |
| Owner | New York pilots |
| Operator | John O'Keefe |
| Builder | Daniel Westervelt of New York City |
| Cost | $8,000 |
| Launched | February 4, 1854 |
| Completed | December 1853 |
| Out of service | 20 April 1858 |
| Homeport | New York |
| Fate | Sank |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Schooner |
| Displacement | 100 tons TM[1] |
| Length | 87 ft 0 in (26.52 m)[2] |
| Propulsion | sails |
| Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
Jacob A. Westervelt was a 19th-century Sandy Hook pilot boat designed by naval architect John W. Griffiths and built by Jacob A. Westervelt in 1853. She was one of the fastest pilot-boats in the fleet. In 1858, while attempting to board the British steamer Saxonia she was fatally run into and sank outside of Sandy Hook. The Edmund Blunt, was built to replace her.
The pilot-boat, Jacob A. Westervelt, No. 19, was designed by John W. Griffiths, who wrote a Treatise on Marine and Naval Architecture. In the Westervelt, Griffiths cut out the traditional drag of the keel, that produced a fast shoal-draught boat.[2] She was built in December 1853 by Aaron J. Westervelt, of the Jacob A. Westervelt Sons & Company for Sullivan & Pratt and the New York pilots: John O'Keefe, John E. Johnson, Charles L. McCummisky, Peter McEnany, Eugene Sullivan, Daniel Baker and William Smith.[3] She was launched on February 4, 1854, for a company of New York Pilots.[1][4]
On May 26, 1857, John L. Roff, boatkeeper on the Jacob A. Westervelt, No. 9, picked up a drowned man at Coney Island and brought the body to the Brooklyn Coroner.[5]
