The Surviving Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks

NO.
SKIPJACK NAME
HOME PORT
CAPTAIN
1. *Nellie Byrd Tilghman Island, MD Mike Hayden
2. *Thomas Clyde Tilghman Island, MD Lawrence Murphy
3. E. C. Collier Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum,
Saint Michaels, MD
N/A
4. City of Crisfield Wenona, MD Art Daniels
5. *Fannie L. Daugherty Wenona, MD Delmas Benton
6. Nathan of Dorchester Cambridge, MD unknown
7. Elsworth Betterton, MD Andrew McCowan
8. Esther F. Tilghman Island, MD Ronald Gowe
9. Ada Fears NJ Tom Doherty of Boston
10. *Caleb W. Jones Wenona, MD Richard Webster
11. *Kathryn Tilghman Island, MD H. Russell Dize
12. *Lady Katie Cambridge, MD Scott Todd
13. *Herman M. Krentz Tilghman Island, MD Ed Farley
14. Maggie Lee Old Harford Town Maritime Center and Museum, West Denton, MD N/A
15. Wilma Lee unknown, VA Herb Carden
16. *Martha Lewis Havre de Grace, MD Mark Sanford
17. Dee of Saint Mary's Piney Point, MD Jack Russell
18. Ida Mae Chance, MD Gordon Gladden
19. Mamie A. Mister Tilghman Island, MD D. K. Bond
20. City of Norfolk Norfolk, VA unknown
21. Stanley Norman Annapolis, MD Earl White (mate)
22. Rosie Parks Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum,
Saint Michaels, MD
None
23. Flora A. Price Old Harford Town Maritime Center and Museum, West Denton, MD None
24. *Rebecca T. Ruark Tilghman Island, MD Wade Murphy, Jr.
25. Sigsbee The Living Classrooms Foundation,
Baltimore, MD
Various
26. Claud W. Somers Reedville, VA Angus Murdock
27. Somerset Wenona, MD Walton Benton
28. Minnie V Baltimore, MD John Motovidlak
29. Talbot Lady Canton, NJ Melvin Thomas
30. *Helen Virginia Cambridge, MD Ernest Barlow
31. Virginia W. Port Kinsale Foundation,
Kinsale, VA
Marty Miller
32. Hilda M. Willing Tilghman Island, MD Barry Sweltzer
33. Ethel Lewis
F.C. Lewis, Jr.
Anna McGarvey
Joy Parks
Mary W. Sommers
These skipjacks are blocked up on land and, hopefully, one day they will again sail the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. N/A
34. Help me keep this
list up to date.
Please contact me if you
know of any changes.
Thanks!

Note: * Skipjacks marked with an asterisk are still used to dredge for oysters.

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