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Virginia W

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Built
  
1904

Architectural style
  
Skipjack

Opened
  
1904

Architect
  
Lewis, Harrison

NRHP Reference #
  
85001098

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 1985

Virginia W

Location
  
Knapps Narrows, Tilghman Island, Maryland

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR

Similar
  
Sigsbee, Rebecca T Ruark, Poplar Island, Chesapeake Bay Maritime

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The Virginia W is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Guilford, Virginia. She is a 37.5-foot-long (11.4 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 13.5 feet (4.1 m), and she draws 3.3 feet (1.0 m) with centerboard up, 6 feet (1.8 m) with centerboard down. 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 Tilghman Island, Talbot County, Maryland.

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

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References

Virginia W Wikipedia