Reliance (skipjack) explained

RELIANCE (Chesapeake Bay skipjack)
Location:Knapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates:38.7128°N -76.3353°W
Added:July 30, 1976
Refnum:76001013

The Reliance is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Fishing Creek, Maryland. She is a 41adj=midNaNadj=mid two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is and her draft is . 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 Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.[1]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Reliance (skipjack). January 1976. 2016-03-01 . Paul L. Teeling. Maryland Historical Trust.