Bernice J.

Bernice J.

History
Builder:	W. Thomas Young
Launched:	1904
General characteristics
Tonnage:	8 gross register tons (GRT)
Length:	58 ft (18 m) LOA
Beam:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Depth:	3.3 ft (1.0 m)
Bernice J. (skipjack)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Town Dock, Chestertown, Maryland
Coordinates
Built	1904
Architect	Young,W. Thomas
Architectural style	Skipjack
MPS	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP Reference #	85001946
Added to NRHP	5 September 1985

Bernice J. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 in Young's Creek, Virginia, by W. Thomas Young of Parksley, who also built Claude W. Somers. She is a 42-foot-long (13 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop, commonly referred to as a skipjack. She worked dredging oysters through the 1970s. She is located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.