E.C. Collier (skipjack)
{{Short description|Boat built in 1910 at Deal Island, Maryland, US}}
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|+E.C. Collier {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=E. C. COLLIER, skipkack, (Talbot County, Maryland).jpg |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|USA}} |Ship name= |Ship owner= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= |Ship original cost= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1910 |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate= |Ship status= |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship tonnage={{NRT|14}} |Ship length={{convert|52|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|17.9|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship hold depth={{convert|4.5|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship propulsion= |Ship sail plan= |Ship complement= |Ship armament= |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | name = E.C. Collier | nrhp_type = | image = | caption = | location = Gibsontown Rd., Tilghman, Maryland | coordinates = {{coord|38|42|46|N|76|19|53|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Maryland | map_width = 300 | area = | built = 1910 | architecture = Skipjack | added = 16 May 1985 | mpsub = Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR {{cite web |url={{NRHP url|id=64000307}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form / Chessapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet |format=pdf |last=Hayward |first=Mary Ellen, Dr |date=December 1984 |publisher=National Park Service |accessdate=2012-10-24 }} | refnum = 85001087{{NRISref|2008a}} }} |
E.C. Collier is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1910 at Deal Island, Maryland. She is a {{convert|52|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of {{convert|17.9|ft}}, a depth of {{convert|4.5|ft}}, 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.{{cite web |url={{MHT url|id=865}} |title=E.C. Collier (skipjack) |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust |accessdate=2012-10-28}} She is now a permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland.{{cite web|title=E.C. Collier|url=http://lastskipjacks.com/boats/eccollier.html|website=The Last Skipjacks Project|accessdate=15 April 2018|date=June 5, 2016}}
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. She is assigned Maryland dredge number 7.{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Cyndy Carrington |title=Skipjacks by dredge number |url=http://lastskipjacks.com/dredgenumbers.html |website=The Last Skipjacks Project |access-date=21 March 2022}}
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External links
- [http://cbmm.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/oystering-on-the-chesapeake/ Oystering on the Chesapeake] permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, including the E.C. Collier
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Category:Ships in Talbot County, Maryland
Category:Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland
Category:Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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