Howard (skipjack)

The Howard is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1909 at Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 45-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 15.3 feet (4.7 m), a depth of 3.1 feet (0.94 m), and a net registered tonnage of 8. 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]

HOWARD (Skipjack)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Lower Thorofare, Wenona, Maryland
Coordinates	38°7′41″N 75°56′54″W
Built	1909
Architectural style	Skipjack
MPS	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.	85001082 [1]
Added to NRHP	May 16, 1985

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]