Fannie L. Daugherty (skipjack)

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FANNIE L. DAUGHERTY
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location: Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates: 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833Coordinates: 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
Built/Founded: 1904
Architectural style(s): Skipjack
Governing body: Private
MPS: Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
Added to NRHP: May 16, 1985
NRHP Reference#: 85001081

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The Fannie L. Daugherty is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Crisfield, Maryland. She is a 41.3 foot long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She is built by cross-planked construction methods and has a beam of 8' and a depth of 3.6'. 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 Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland.[2]

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://www.nr.nps.gov/. 
  2. "Maryland Historical Trust". FANNIE L. DAUGHERTY (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14. http://www.mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=867&COUNTY=Somerset&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Somerset. 

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