The Americans had already gone ashore in the pilot boat.
"The pilot boat is coming alongside," he said to his first officer.
Smith watched the pilot boat accelerate away into the rain.
The pilot boat was still visible when it began to slow and turn.
He stood back and observed the transfer of the women to the pilot boat.
Before he had made his request for permission to leave by the pilot boat.
In less than a fraction of a glass, a pilot boat steamed up.
During the first months of the conflict, she served as a pilot boat.
Now he could see the pilot boat with the naked eye.
The arms were originally proposed in 1855 and described as a pilot boat on the sea.