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Reliance (skipjack)

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Built
  
1904 (1904)

Opened
  
1904

Added to NRHP
  
30 July 1976

NRHP Reference #
  
76001013

Area
  
400 m²

Reliance (skipjack)

Location
  
Knapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland

The Reliance is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Fishing Creek, Maryland. She is a 41-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 14 feet (4.3 m) and her draft is 2 feet (0.61 m). She 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.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

References

Reliance (skipjack) Wikipedia