| HOWARD (Skipjack) | |
| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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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 / 38.12806; -75.94833 |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001082 |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
The Howard is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1909 at Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 45-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.3 feet (4.7 m), a depth of 3.1 feet (0.94 m), and a net registered tonnage of 8. 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.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Howard (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
- HOWARD (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust
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