Builder W. Thomas Young Beam 14 ft (4.3 m) Architectural style Other Length 13 m | Tonnage 6 NRT Depth 3 ft (0.91 m) Launched 1911 Year built 1911 | |
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Location 504 Main St., Reedville, Virginia | ||
Claud W. Somers is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1911 in Young's Creek, Virginia, by W. Thomas Young of Parksley, who also built Bernice J.. She is ported at the Reedville Fisherman's Museum in Reedville, Virginia. In 1977 Claude W. Somers was struck by a squall near Hooper Strait Light, leaving six drowned, including her owner-captain.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland in 1985 and in Virginia in 2005.
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