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Susan May (skipjack)

Coordinates: 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
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SUSAN MAY
Susan May (skipjack) is located in Maryland
Susan May (skipjack)
Susan May (skipjack) is located in the United States
Susan May (skipjack)
LocationLower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
Arealess than one acre
Built1901 (1901)
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSCheChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.85001083 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985

The Sea Gull is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Pocomoke City, Maryland. She is a 46-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.9 feet (4.8 m) and a depth of 1.6 feet (0.49 m); her gross tonnage is 10 register 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 located at Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Susan May (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
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