However she safely brought the ship to the Irish Sea where they picked up a pilot who took the ship into Liverpool where they arrived on May 12 just as Capt. Hall and the mate began to recover.
Their mascot name is known as the Pilots in honor of the pilots of maritime vehicles in the oceans, lakes and rivers.
It was especially known for its river pilots who would guide vessels through the treacherous Saint Lawrence navigation channel.
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At several bridges, such as the Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach, CA, NOAA has installed an "Air Gap" measuring device that accurately measures the distance from its sensor on the bridge to the water surface and can be accessed by marine pilots and ship's masters to aid them in making real time determination of clearance.
However, the work functions of the maritime pilot go back to Ancient Greece and Roman times, when locally experienced harbour captains, mainly local fishermen, were employed by incoming ships captains to safely bring into port their trading vessels.
There are also the graves of rope-makers and pilots, ships' captains and many young sailors drowned at sea, as well as that of Captain Thomas Jones, an ancestor of Lord Snowdon.
Juan de Fuca (1536 - 1602), a Greek maritime pilot in the service of the Spanish king Philip II