harbor. Hope returned north and decommissioned at New York City on 6 September 1865. She was sold 25 October 1865 to Thomas Morley. Postwar civil service Hope No. 1, became a New York City Pilot Boat for the New York Pilots. Her captains were Captain Marshall and Thomas Morley. The Hope was registered with the Index to Ship Registers from 1877 to 1890 to the N. Y. Pilots and Captain Thomas Morely as master. On December 19, 1866, pilot-boat Hope, No. 1, accepted a race with pilot-boat John D. Jones, No. 15, from New York across the Atlantic to Cowes for $50,000. ON January 15, 1867, the Commissioners of Pilots issued an order forbidding the entrance of any pilot-boat into a contest, which was a disappointment to the pilots. On October 9, 1873, the Hope, was one of the boats that participated in the Ocean Regatta, for the Bennet Cup, which was a race from Owl's Head Point around to Cape May Lighthouse in New Jersey, and back to the Sandy Hook Lightship. On July 31, 1887, Captain Thomas Morley, one of the oldest Sandy Hook pilots died suddenly. He had served as a pilot on the Moses H. Grinnell and had been on board pilot boat Hope No. 1 for twenty years. Hope was thought to be lost near Sandy Hook on April 15, 1890, off Owl's Head by an unknown steamer. She was able to survive the accident and was towed into New York harbor. On March 13, 1891, Hope was wrecked ashore the Sandy Hook Point. The crew of the Hope, were all rescued by Captain Patterson and his Life-saving crew. New York pilot-boat Herman Oelrichs, No. 1, was built in 1894 in Essex, Connecticut, for the New York pilots, to replace the Hope, wrecked in 1890. The Herman Oelrichs was the "fastest of the New York pilot fleet." References Ships of the Union Navy Schooners of the United States Navy Gunboats of the United States Navy Dispatch boats of the United States Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States Schooners of the United States Individual sailing vessels Service vessels of the United States 1861 ships Pilot boats Ships built in Brooklyn