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.