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]
SIGSBEE | |
 Sigsbee under sail on the Chester River in 2016 | |
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| Location | Knapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W |
| Built | 1901 |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001097 [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 5.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". SIGSBEE (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.
- ^ "National Register Listings in Maryland". 2012-06-05. Archived from the original on 2012-06-05. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ^ Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
External links
edit- SIGSBEE (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1994, at Maryland Historical Trust
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