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United States historic place
The F. C. Lewis Jr. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a 39-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.6 feet (4.5 m) and a register depth of 3 feet (0.91 m); her register tonnage is 6. Likewise, 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.[2]
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 36.[3]
References
- ^ a b "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: F. C. Lewis Jr. (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
External links
- F. C. Lewis Jr. (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust
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