Reliance (skipjack)

RELIANCE (Chesapeake Bay skipjack)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Knapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates	38°42′46″N 76°20′7″W / 38.71278°N 76.33528°W / 38.71278; -76.33528Coordinates: 38°42′46″N 76°20′7″W / 38.71278°N 76.33528°W / 38.71278; -76.33528
Built	1904
Governing body	Private
NRHP Reference #	76001013 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 30, 1976

The Reliance is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Fishing Creek, Maryland. She is a 41-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 14 feet (4.3 m) and her draft is 2 feet (0.61 m). She 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 Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.^[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

References

External links

• RELIANCE (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust

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