Built 1901 NRHP Reference # 85001097 Added to NRHP 16 May 1985 | Architectural style Skipjack Opened 1901 | |
Location Knapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland MPS Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR Similar Rebecca T Ruark, Martha Lewis, Poplar Island, Chesapeake Bay Maritime | ||
The Sigsbee is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Deal Island, Maryland, United States. She is a 47-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.8 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 3.8 feet (1.2 m), and a gross 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 owned and operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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