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Skipjacks

Scope note

Use for single-masted sailing vessels built with deadrise construction, decked, with a cabin and generally carrying a triangular mainsail and jib, set on a sharply raking mast; a few two-masted, or three-sail examples were built; introduced onto the Chesapeake Bay in the mid-19th century and usually used for oyster dredging.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000212879

Broader Terms used

<dredging vessels>

Narrower Terms used

crab scrapers

Equivalent Terms used

skipjack

Created

13yrs ago

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