Sigsbee (skipjack)

SIGSBEE
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Sigsbee at Pier V in Baltimore in 2011
Location	Knapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates	38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W / 38.71917; -76.33389Coordinates: 38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W / 38.71917; -76.33389
Built	1901
Architectural style	Skipjack
Governing body	Private
MPS	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP Reference #	85001097 [1]
Added to NRHP	May 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 located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.^[2]

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

References

External links

• SIGSBEE (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1994, at Maryland Historical Trust

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