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THE TOLL IN THE SIXTIES MANY of the pilot fleet went ashore on the beaches of New Jersey and Long Island and as several were pulled off and re-placed in the service, it is difficult to enumerate the total of the vessels thus wrecked and abandoned since 1858. The Virginia went ashore near Rockaway shoals, in the dense fog in 1860. The Edwin Forrest was lost on Fire Island beach, in 1862, and the W. J. Romer struck a sunken wreck in 1863. The William Bell, as before related, was captured and burnt by the Confederate privateer Tallahassee in 1864, and another pilot boat by the same name went ashore off Amagansett during a gale and snow storm, in 1867. The Favorite and the George Steers were wrecked in 1865. The period immediately following the close of the Civil War was quite as disastrous for the brave men of Sandy Hook as the earlier days, as far as the destruction of their craft and the loss of brave lives was concerned. Pilot boat upon pilot boat had to be built to replace those sent to the b |
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