Houston is often called the city that built the port that built the city. The measure of success, however, should not be in the building of what has become the nation’s largest inland port but rather in the hundreds of thousands of ships the Houston Pilots have quietly and safely guided along the channel over […]
![Houston Pilots: Guardians of the Waterway "Little Ship Stories" by Captain Lou Vest illustrates the vast differences in the types, sizes, and ages of ships that pilots bring into and out of the Houston Ship Channel every day.](https://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/L-Vest_09J5610-3-e1414805542677-100x100.jpg)