MAGGIE S. MYERS (schooner) | |
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| Location | Killen's Dock at Front and Lombard Sts.,Leipsic, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 39°14′30″N75°30′53″W / 39.24167°N 75.51472°W /39.24167; -75.51472 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1893 (1893) |
| MPS | Bowers Beach DE MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 83001378[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 25, 1983 |
TheMaggie S. Myers is anoyster schooner, built in 1893 reportedly atBridgeton, New Jersey. She is 50-foot-long (15 m) and all the framing is of white oak. The rigging was removed in the 1940s, when the vessel was converted to power. She is maintained and used foroyster dredging on the waters of theDelaware Bay.[2]
She was restored by her current owner, Frank "Thumper" Eicherly IV ofBowers Beach, Delaware, and ran on both sail as well as combustion. She sank on December 23, 2022,[3] but was refloated several days later.[4]
She was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
A similar oyster dredging schooner, theKatherine M. Lee, which is also listed on the NRHP, was also docked near Davidson St inBowers Beach, Delaware.
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