The F. C. Lewis Jr. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a 39-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.6 feet (4.5 m) and a register depth of 3 feet (0.91 m); her register tonnage is 6. Likewise, 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]
F. C. Lewis Jr. | |
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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 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1907 |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001080[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 36.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: F. C. Lewis Jr. (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
External links
edit- F. C. Lewis Jr. (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust