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Chesapeake Bay skipjack oyster dredger J. T. LEONARD. According to one accountthis was among the last of the working skipjacks and broken up in the 1970'safter nearly a century of service having been built in1882. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection | Robert K. Brigham BCF)