Susan May (skipjack)
The Sea Gull is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Pocomoke City, Maryland. She is a 46-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.9 feet (4.8 m) and a depth of 1.6 feet (0.49 m); her gross tonnage is 10 register 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 located at Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Susan May (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
External links
- SUSAN MAY (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust
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