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United States historic place
RELIANCE (Chesapeake Bay skipjack)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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LocationKnapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates38°42′46″N 76°20′7″W / 38.71278°N 76.33528°W / 38.71278; -76.33528
Area0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built1904 (1904)
NRHP reference No.76001013
Added to NRHPJuly 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.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Paul L. Teeling (January 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Reliance (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
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