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Sea Gull (skipjack)

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
85001078

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 1985

Architectural style
  
Skipjack

Year built
  
1924

Sea Gull (skipjack)

Location
  
Lower thorofare, Deal Island, Maryland

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR

The Sea Gull is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1924 at Crisfield, Maryland. She is a 46.6-foot-long (14.2 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.9 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 4.3 feet (1.3 m), and a net register tonnage of 10. 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 Deal Island, Somerset County, Maryland.

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

References

Sea Gull (skipjack) Wikipedia