Sigsbee (skipjack)

SIGSBEE

Sigsbee under sail on the Chester River in 2016
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
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, United States. 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 owned and operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]

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

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Maryland Historical Trust". SIGSBEE (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.


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