Reliance (skipjack)

Short description: United States historic place

RELIANCE (Chesapeake Bay skipjack)

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| Knapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 38°42′46″N 76°20′7″W﻿ / ﻿38.71278°N 76.33528°W﻿ / 38.71278; -76.33528
Area| 0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built| 1904 (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]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.
2. ↑ Paul L. Teeling (January 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Reliance (skipjack)". Maryland Historical Trust. https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-390.pdf. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

## External links

* RELIANCE (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust

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