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The Sylph was a 19th-century pilot boat first built in 1834, by Whitmore & Holbrook for John Perkins Cushing as a Boston yacht and pilot-boat for merchant and ship owner Robert Bennet Forbes. She won the first recorded American yacht race in 1835. She was a pilot boat in the Boston Harbor in 1836 and 1837 and sold to the New York and Sandy Hook Pilots in October 1837. She was lost in winter of 1857 with all hands during a blizzard off Barnegat, New Jersey. The second Sylph was built in 1865 from a half-model by Dennison J. Lawlor. The third Sylph was built in 1878 at North Weymouth, Massachusetts for Boston Pilots. She was sold out of service in 1901, after 23 years of Boston pilot service.
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- First Family of Inventors History of the Stevens family
- Cox and Stevens Collection Mystic Seaport Museum
- Hoboken Museum
- History of Gibbs and Cox
- Records of Phillip L. Rhodes Mystic Seaport Museum
- Spurr, Daniel, Heart of Glass, McGraw Hill, 2000 pg 101
- Henderson, Richard, Philip L. Rhodes and His Yacht Designs, International Marine Publishing, 1981 ISBN 0-87742-128-5
- The Encyclopedia of Yacht Designers, by Lucia Del Sol Knight (Editor), Daniel Bruce MacNaughton (Editor) W. W. Norton & Company 2005
- The Golden Century: Classic Motor Yachts, 1830–1930, by Ross Mactaggart, W. W. Norton & Company 2001
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