F. C. Lewis Jr. | |
Location: | Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland |
Coordinates: | 38.1281°N -75.9483°W |
Architecture: | Skipjack |
Added: | May 16, 1985 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 85001080 |
The F. C. Lewis Jr. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a 39adj=midNaNadj=mid two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of and a register depth of ; her register tonnage is 6. Likewise, 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.[1]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. She is assigned Maryland dredge number 36.[2]