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Clarence Crockett (skipjack)

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Tonnage
  
7 NRT

Depth
  
3.0 ft (0.91 m)

Launched
  
1908

Year built
  
1908

Beam
  
14.7 ft (4.5 m)

Architectural style
  
Skipjack

Length
  
14 m

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 1985

Clarence Crockett (skipjack)

Location
  
Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR

Clarence Crockett is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1908 at Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 44.6-foot-long (13.6 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.7 feet (4.5 m) and a depth of 3.0 feet (0.91 m) with a net registered tonnage of 7. 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.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Clarence Crockett (skipjack) Wikipedia