The United States Survey of the Coast…

The United States Survey of the Coast is transferred to the Department of the Navy on March 11, 1834.

Congress had passed a new law on July 10, 1832, renewing the original law of 1807, placing the responsibility for coastal surveying back in the Survey of the Coast and permitting the hiring of civilians to carry it out.

Ferdinand R. Hassler, the original leader of the survey, had been reappointed as the Survey's superintendent that year.

The administration of President Andrew Jackson had expanded and extended the Survey of the Coast's scope and organization, and the Survey of the Coast had resumed field work in April 1833.

 Edmund E. Blunt, the son of hydrographer Edmund B. Blunt, had accepted a position with the Survey in July 1833.

The elder Blunt had begun publication of the American Coast Pilot—the first book of sailing directions, charts, and other information for mariners in North American waters to be published in North America—in 1796.

Although the Survey will rely on articles it publishes in local newspapers to provide information to mariners in the next decades, Blunt's employment with the Survey begins a relationship between the American Coast Pilot and the Survey in which the Survey's findings will be incorporated into the American Coast Pilot and the Survey's charts will be sold by the Blunt family, which will become staunch allies of the Survey in its disputes with its critics.

Eventually, the relationship between the Survey and the Blunts will lead to the establishment of the Survey's United States Coast Pilot publications in the latter part of the nineteenth century.