Northern Light (pilot boat)
Yacht Northern Light in Boston Harbor (painting by Fitz Henry Lane. | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Northern Light |
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| Out of service |
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| Class & type | schooner |
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| Beam | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) (yacht) |
| Depth | 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) (yacht) |
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The Northern Light was a 19th-century yacht, built in 1839 at the Whitemore & Holbrook shipyard for Colonel William P. Winchester, a Boston merchant. She was designed by Louis Winde, an early yacht designer and shipbuilder. She sank en route to California in 1850. A second Northern Light, was built in 1927 and bought by the Boston Pilots' Association to serve as a pilot-boat from 1934 to 1941. She was sold to the United States Army in 1941 to serve in the war effort during World War II.