Reliance (skipjack)
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.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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
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