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Minnie V (skipjack)

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Architectural style
  
Skipjack

Year built
  
1906

NRHP Reference #
  
85001092

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 1985

Minnie V (skipjack)

Location
  
Gibsontown Rd., Tilghman, Maryland

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR

The Minnie V is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Wenona, Maryland. She is a 45.3' long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.7' and a depth of 3' with a net registered tonnage of 8 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 Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.

The Minnie V is featured as the working Skipjack in the Homicide: Life on the Street television series season 3 episode The Last of the Watermen.

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

References

Minnie V (skipjack) Wikipedia