F. C. Lewis Jr. (skipjack)

The F. C. Lewis Jr. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a 39-foot-long (12 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.6 feet (4.5 m) and a register depth of 3 feet (0.91 m); her register tonnage is 6. Likewise, 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]

F. C. Lewis Jr.
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
Area	less than one acre
Built	1907 (1907)
Architectural style	Skipjack
MPS	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference No.	85001080[1]
Added to NRHP	May 16, 1985

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 36.^[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: F. C. Lewis Jr. (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

• F. C. Lewis Jr. (skipjack), Somerset County, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust