Ruby G. Ford (skipjack)

RUBY G. FORD
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Ruby G. Ford (skipjack) is located in Maryland 7x7px
Location:	Gibsontown Rd., Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates:	38°42′46″N 76°19′53″W
Built/Founded:	1891
Architectural style(s):	Skipjack
Governing body:	Private
MPS:	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
Added to NRHP:	May 16, 1985
NRHP Reference#:	85001096

The Ruby G. Ford was a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1891 at Fairmount, Maryland. She was a 45 foot long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She had a beam of 15.6', a depth of 2.6', and a net tonnage of 5 register tons. She was one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. According to a first-hand account by Christopher White in his book SKIPJACK, pgs. 292-296, St. Martin's Press, published in 2009, the Ruby G. Ford was burned to complete destruction, torched by Tilghman Island Captain, Bart Murphy, who owned her a the time and did not have funds enough to restore her from a state of grave disrepair.

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

External links

• RUBY G. FORD (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust