Built 1904 (1904) Opened 1904 Added to NRHP 30 July 1976 | NRHP Reference # 76001013 Area 400 m² | |
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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.
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