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Sigsbee (skipjack)

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SIGSBEE
Sigsbee under power on the Chester River in 2013
Sigsbee (skipjack) is located in Maryland
Sigsbee (skipjack)
LocationKnapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland
Built1901
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.85001097 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 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

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". SIGSBEE (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.