Ships, Ports, and Pilots

The late Roger Clancy of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, had many years’ experience as a federally licensed captain of deep-sea sport fishing.

Table of Contents



Foreword     



1. The Needs and the Origins     

2. Rhodes     

3. Oleron     

4. The High and Mighty Pilots     

5. Transition     

6. Britannia     

7. Wisby and the Laws     

8. The Hanseatic League and More Ship Laws     

9. The French and Their Pilots     

10. Early American     

11. After the Mayflower     

12. The Virginians     

13. More of Chesapeake Bay     

14. After the Revolution     

15. Pilot Licensing in America     

16. Trends in Compulsory Pilotage     

17. Tugboats and a Tug-of-war     

18. The American Pilots’ Association     

19. The War Goes On     

20. Accidents and Eloquence     

21. More of Stephen M. Sparkman     

22. Pilots as Gate Keepers     

23. The Fading Fight     

24. The Conflict Comes to an End     

25. Pilots in the First World War     

26. American Pilots Go to War Again     

27. The Pilots and the U. S. Coast Guard     

28. Semper Paratus     

29. Another Postwar Period     

30. A System Tailored for the Great Lakes     

31. Back to Sandy Hook     

32. The Making of a Pilot     

33. The Apprenticeship Programs     

34. A Time for Learning     

35. The Measure of Compensation     

36. Back to Boston     

37. The Boston Marine Society     

38. A Long Line of Schooners     

39. The “Canoes” and the “Yawls”     

40. A Pilotage Headquarters     

41. Pilots and Pirates     

42. The River Pilots     

43. Epitome     

44. he Busy-Body Meddlers     

45. Business as Usual     



Index