George Peabody

George Peabody was a 19th-century pilot boat built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1867, for San Francisco pilots. She was in the San Francisco pilot service for twenty-seven years. The Peabody was sold in 1893 to Captain Samuel H. Burtis and sailed to Yokohama, Japan for fishing and Seal hunting. In March 1895, she went ashore off the coast of Japan while working in the sealing trade. Construction and service George Peabody, No. 3, was a fast-sailing Boston pilot-boat that was built in 1867, for San Francisco pilots. She was the last of the Boston pilot boats brought to Port of San Francisco for use in the Golden Gate. All the later boats were built in the West Coast. She was a replacement for the San Francisco pilot boat Caleb Curtis, which was wrecked inside the Bonita Channel outside Golden Gate Bridge on April 11, 1867, while attempting to cross the bar on her way to relieve the pilot boat J. C. Cousins. The Peabody was in the pilot service for twenty-seven years. She was 71 feet in length, 20.8 beam, 8 foot depth and 54-tons burden The George Peabody sailed to San Francisco from Boston on the October 5, 1867. She was cleared for San Francisco with Captain William Chatfield of Thayer & Peabody of Boston. She arrived in San Francisco on February 11, 1868, after a 124-day journey from Boston, via Rio de Janeiro. She was assigned to Stevens and Baker.