Engineering:E.C. Collier (skipjack)

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Short description: Boat built in 1910 at Deal Island, Maryland, US
E.C. Collier
E. C. COLLIER, skipkack, (Talbot County, Maryland).jpg
History
United States
Launched: 1910
General characteristics
Length: 52 ft (16 m)
Beam: 17.9 ft (5.5 m)
Depth of hold: 4.5 ft (1.4 m)
E.C. Collier
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LocationGibsontown Rd., Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates [ ⚑ ] : 38°42′46″N 76°19′53″W / 38.71278°N 76.33139°W / 38.71278; -76.33139
Built1910
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR[2]
NRHP reference #85001087[1]
Added to NRHP16 May 1985

E.C. Collier is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1910 at Deal Island, Maryland. She is a 52-foot-long (16 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 17.9 feet (5.5 m), a depth of 4.5 feet (1.4 m), and a registered net tonnage of 14 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. At the time of her documentation on the National Register of Historic Places she was located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.[3] She is now a permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland.[4]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 7.[5]

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