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 / 38.12806°N 75.94833°W / 38.12806; -75.94833
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

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]

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

References

External links

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