SIGSBEE
Sigsbee under sail on the Chester River in 2016
Sigsbee (skipjack) is located in Maryland
Sigsbee (skipjack)
Sigsbee (skipjack) is located in the United States
Sigsbee (skipjack)
LocationKnapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W / 38.71917; -76.33389
Built1901
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.85001097 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985

The Sigsbee is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Deal Island, Maryland, United States. She is a 47-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.8 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 3.8 feet (1.2 m), and a gross registered tonnage of 8 tons. 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 owned and operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.[2][3]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 5.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". SIGSBEE (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.
  3. ^ "National Register Listings in Maryland". 2012-06-05. Archived from the original on 2012-06-05. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  4. ^ Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.

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