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Fannie L. Daugherty (skipjack)

FANNIE L. DAUGHERTY
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Fannie L. Daugherty (skipjack) is located in Maryland
Fannie L. Daugherty (skipjack)
Fannie L. Daugherty (skipjack) is located in the US
Fannie L. Daugherty (skipjack)
Location Lower Thorofare
Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833Coordinates: 38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
Area less than one acre
Built 1904 (1904)
Architectural style Skipjack
MPS Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference # 85001081
Added to NRHP May 16, 1985

The Fannie L. Daugherty is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Crisfield, Maryland. She is a 41.3-foot-long (12.6 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She is built by cross-planked construction methods and has a beam of 8 feet (2.4 m) and a depth of 3.6 feet (1.1 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 Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.



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