Engineering:Bernice J.

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Bernice J.
History
Builder: W. Thomas Young
Launched: 1904
General characteristics
Length: 58 ft (18 m) LOA
Beam: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Depth: 3.3 ft (1.0 m)
Bernice J. (skipjack)
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LocationTown Dock, Chestertown, Maryland
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 39°12′24″N 76°3′48″W / 39.20667°N 76.06333°W / 39.20667; -76.06333
Built1904
ArchitectYoung, W. Thomas
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR[2]
NRHP reference #85001946[1]
Added to NRHP5 September 1985

Bernice J. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 in Young's Creek, Virginia, by W. Thomas Young of Parksley, who also built Claude W. Somers. She is a 42-foot-long (13 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop, commonly referred to as a skipjack. She worked dredging oysters through the 1970s. She is located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland.[3]

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

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