Virginia W
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Virginia W | |
 The Virginia W hauled out of the water in Cambridge, Maryland in 2021 | |
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| Location | Cambridge, Maryland |
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| Built | 1904 |
| Architect | Lewis, Harrison |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001098[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
The Virginia W is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Guilford, Virginia. She is a 37.5-foot-long (11.4 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 13.5 feet (4.1 m), and she draws 3.3 feet (1.0 m) with centerboard up, 6 feet (1.8 m) with centerboard down. 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 Cambridge, Maryland, Dorchester County.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 12.[3]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- VIRGINIA W (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust
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