Reliance (skipjack)

RELIANCE (Chesapeake Bay skipjack)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Knapps Narrows off MD 33, Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates	38°42′46″N 76°20′7″W
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1904 (1904)
NRHP reference No.	76001013[1]
Added to NRHP	July 30, 1976

The Reliance is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Fishing Creek, Maryland. She is a 41-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 14 feet (4.3 m) and her draft is 2 feet (0.61 m). She 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, Talbot County, Maryland.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Paul L. Teeling (January 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Reliance (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

• RELIANCE (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1975, at Maryland Historical Trust