Gibsontown Rd., Tilghman, Maryland. County/parish: Talbot.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 16, 1985. NRIS 85001092.
1 contributing structure.The Minnie V is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Wenona, Maryland, United States. It is a 45.3-foot-long, two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. It has a beam of 15.7 feet and a depth of 3 feet with a net registered tonnage of 8 tons. It is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. It is located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.
The Minnie V is featured as the working skipjack in the television series Homicide: Life on the Street (third-season episode: "The Last of the Watermen").
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. it is assigned Maryland dredge number 50, was previously dredge 33.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106775826