E.C. Collier (skipjack)

E.C. Collier

History
United States
Launched	1910
General characteristics
Tonnage	14 NRT
Length	52 ft (16 m)
Beam	17.9 ft (5.5 m)
Depth of hold	4.5 ft (1.4 m)
E.C. Collier
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Gibsontown Rd., Tilghman, Maryland
Coordinates	38°42′46″N 76°19′53″W / 38.71278°N 76.33139°W / 38.71278; -76.33139
Built	1910
Architectural style	Skipjack
MPS	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR[2]
NRHP reference No.	85001087[1]
Added to NRHP	16 May 1985

E.C. Collier is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1910 at Deal Island, Maryland. She is a 52-foot-long (16 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 17.9 feet (5.5 m), a depth of 4.5 feet (1.4 m), and a registered net tonnage of 14 tons. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. At the time of her documentation on the National Register of Historic Places she was located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland.^[3] She is now a permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland.^[4]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 7.^[5]

• Oystering on the Chesapeake permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, including the E.C. Collier