History | |
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Builder | W. Thomas Young |
Launched | 1904 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 58 ft (18 m) LOA |
Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Depth | 3.3 ft (1.0 m) |
Bernice J. (skipjack) | |
Location | Town Dock, Chestertown, Maryland |
Coordinates | 39°12′24″N 76°3′48″W / 39.20667°N 76.06333°W |
Built | 1904 |
Architect | Young, W. Thomas |
Architectural style | Skipjack |
MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR [2] |
NRHP reference No. | 85001946 [1] |
Added to NRHP | 5 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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History | |
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Builder | W. Thomas Young |
Launched | 1904 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 8 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 58 ft (18 m) LOA |
Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Depth | 3.3 ft (1.0 m) |
Bernice J. (skipjack) | |
Location | Town Dock, Chestertown, Maryland |
Coordinates | 39°12′24″N 76°3′48″W / 39.20667°N 76.06333°W |
Built | 1904 |
Architect | Young, W. Thomas |
Architectural style | Skipjack |
MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR [2] |
NRHP reference No. | 85001946 [1] |
Added to NRHP | 5 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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link)