Sigsbee (skipjack)

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SIGSBEE
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Knapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates: 38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W / 38.71917; -76.33389Coordinates: 38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W / 38.71917; -76.33389
Built/Founded: 1901
Architectural style(s): Skipjack
Governing body: Private
MPS: Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
Added to NRHP: May 16, 1985
NRHP Reference#: 85001097

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The Sigsbee is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Deal Island, Maryland. She is a 47 foot long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.8 feet, a depth of 3.8 feet, 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 located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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