Builder W. Thomas Young Beam 15 ft (4.6 m) Launched 1904 Added to NRHP 5 September 1985 | Length 58 ft (18 m) LOA Depth 3.3 ft (1.0 m) Year built 1904 | |
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Tonnage 8 gross register tons (GRT) Location Town Dock, Chestertown, Maryland | ||
Bernice J. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 in Young's Creek, Virginia, by W. Thomas Young of Parksley, who also built Claude W. Somers. She is a 42-foot-long (13 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop, commonly referred to as a skipjack. She worked dredging oysters through the 1970s. She is located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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