Engineering:Sea Gull (skipjack)

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SEA GULL
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LocationLower thorofare, Deal Island, Maryland
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
Arealess than one acre
Built1924 (1924)
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference #85001078 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985

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.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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