Sigsbee (skipjack)
Appearance
SIGSBEE | |
Location | Knapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland |
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Built | 1901 |
Architectural style | Skipjack |
MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
NRHP reference No. | 85001097 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
The Sigsbee is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Deal Island, Maryland. She is a 47-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.8 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 3.8 feet (1.2 m), and a gross registered tonnage of 8 tons. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is owned and operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". SIGSBEE (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.
External links
- SIGSBEE (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1994, at Maryland Historical Trust
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