Sigsbee | |
 Sigsbee under sail on the Chester River in 2016 | |
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| Location | Knapps Narrows,Tilghman, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°43′9″N76°20′2″W / 38.71917°N 76.33389°W /38.71917; -76.33389 |
| Built | 1901 |
| Architectural style | Skipjack |
| MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 85001097[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
TheSigsbee is aChesapeake Bayskipjack, built in 1901 atDeal Island, Maryland,United States. She is a 47-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.8 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 3.8 feet (1.2 m), and a gross registered tonnage of 8 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 owned and operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland.[2][3]
She was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 5.[4]
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