Minnie V (skipjack) explained

MINNIE V
Location:Gibsontown Rd.
Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates:38.7128°N -76.3314°W
Built:1906
Architecture:Skipjack
Added:May 16, 1985
Refnum:85001092

The Minnie V is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Wenona, Maryland, United States. It is a 45.3-foot-long, two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. It has a beam of 15.7 feet and a depth of 3 feet with a net registered tonnage of 8 tons. It is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. It is located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.[1]

The Minnie V is featured as the working skipjack in the television series (third-season episode: "The Last of the Watermen").

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. it is assigned Maryland dredge number 50, was previously dredge 33.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{MHT url|id=874}} Maryland Historical Trust]. 2008-06-14. MINNIE V (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust.
  2. Web site: Miller . Cyndy Carrington . Skipjacks by dredge number . The Last Skipjacks Project . 21 March 2022.