Sea Gull (skipjack)
Appearance
SEA GULL | |
Location | Lower thorofare, Deal Island, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1924 |
Architectural style | Skipjack |
MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
NRHP reference No. | 85001078 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
The Sea Gull is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1924 at Crisfield, Maryland. She is a 46.6-foot-long (14.2 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.9 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 4.3 feet (1.3 m), and a net register tonnage of 10. 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 located at Deal Island, Somerset County, Maryland.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sea Gull (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
[edit]- SEA GULL (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust