Howard (skipjack)

Short description: United States historic place

HOWARD (Skipjack)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W﻿ / ﻿38.12806°N 75.94833°W﻿ / 38.12806; -75.94833
Built| 1909
Architectural style| Skipjack
MPS| Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference #| 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.
2. ↑ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Howard (skipjack)". Maryland Historical Trust. https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-866.pdf. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

## External links

* HOWARD (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust

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