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Nellie L. Byrd (skipjack)

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Location
  
Middle River, Maryland

NRHP Reference #
  
85001093

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 1985

Architectural style
  
Skipjack

Year built
  
1911

Nellie L. Byrd (skipjack)

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR

The Nellie L. Byrd is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1911 at Oriole, Maryland. She is a 53.6' long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 26.7', a depth of 4.8', and a net tonnage of 18 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. When listed, she was located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland. Since 2005, she is located at Middle River, Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland.

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

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Nellie L. Byrd (skipjack) Wikipedia