Ida May (skipjack)

Ida May
The Ida May in 2013
Ida May (skipjack) is located in Maryland
Ida May (skipjack)
Ida May (skipjack) is located in the United States
Ida May (skipjack)
LocationUpper thorofare, Chance, Maryland
Coordinates38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694
Built1906
Architectural styleSkipjack
MPSChesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.85001077[1]
Added to NRHPMay 16, 1985

The Ida May is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Urbanna or Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 42.2-foot-long (12.9 m), two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.4 feet (4.4 m), a depth of 3.3 feet (1 m), and a net register tonnage of 7. 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 Chance, Somerset County, Maryland.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 41.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ida May (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  3. ^ Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.

External links

  • Blog of Gladden Family's Reconstruction of Historic Skipjack Ida May
  • IDA MAY (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust


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