Susan May (skipjack) explained

SUSAN MAY
Location:Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates:38.1281°N -75.9483°W
Architecture:Skipjack
Added:May 16, 1985
Area:less than one acre
Mpsub:Che
Refnum:85001083

The Sea Gull is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Pocomoke City, Maryland. She is a 46adj=midNaNadj=mid two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of and a depth of ; her gross tonnage is 10 register tons. 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Susan May (skipjack). May 1984. 2016-03-01 . M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty. Maryland Historical Trust.