Engineering:Sigsbee (skipjack)

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Short description: United States historic place
SIGSBEE
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Sigsbee under sail on the Chester River in 2016
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LocationKnapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 38°43′9″N 76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W / 38.71917; -76.33389
Built1901
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference #85001097 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985

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.[2][3]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 5.[4]

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