Architectural style Skipjack Year built 1906 | NRHP Reference # 85001092 Added to NRHP 16 May 1985 | |
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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.
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