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United States historic place
SUSAN MAY
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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LocationLower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
Arealess than one acre
Built1901 (1901)
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSCheChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.85001083
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985
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The Sea Gull is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Pocomoke City, Maryland. She is a 46-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.9 feet (4.8 m) and a depth of 1.6 feet (0.49 m); her gross tonnage is 10 register 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 located at Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Susan May (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

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