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]
HOWARD (Skipjack) | |
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| Location | Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001082 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Howard (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
edit- HOWARD (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust