Knapps Narrows, Tilghman, Maryland. County/parish: Talbot.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 16, 1985. NRIS 85001098.
1 contributing structure.
The Virginia W is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Guilford, Virginia. She is a 37.5-foot-long (11.4 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 13.5 feet (4.1 m), and she draws 3.3 feet (1.0 m) with centerboard up, 6 feet (1.8 m) with centerboard down. 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 Cambridge, Maryland, Dorchester County.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. She is assigned Maryland dredge number 12.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106775850