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Chesapeake Bay skipjack oyster dredger J

Description

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.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

Photographer

Robert K. Brigham BCF

Display Date

1964 February 3

Collection

Historic Fisheries