Howard (skipjack)
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HOWARD (Skipjack) | |
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| Location | Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland |
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| Built | 1909 |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001082 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
The Howard is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1909 at Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 45-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.3 feet (4.7 m), a depth of 3.1 feet (0.94 m), and a net registered tonnage of 8. 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]
References
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[edit | edit source]- HOWARD (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust