RELIANCE (Chesapeake Bay skipjack) | |
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Location | Knapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland |
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Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 38°42′46″N 76°20′7″W / 38.71278°N 76.33528°W |
Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
Built | 1904 |
NRHP reference # | 76001013[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 30, 1976 |
The Reliance is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Fishing Creek, Maryland. She is a 41-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 14 feet (4.3 m) and her draft is 2 feet (0.61 m). She 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 Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance (skipjack).
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