Sea Gull (skipjack)
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SEA GULL | |
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| Location | Lower thorofare, Deal Island, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°WCoordinates: 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 # | 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
- 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ 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
- SEA GULL (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust
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