The ''F. C. Lewis Jr.'' is a

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skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of and a register depth of ; her register tonnage is 6. Likewise, she is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is located at Wenona,

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. She was listed on the

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in 1985. She is assigned Maryland dredge number 36.

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*, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust Somerset County, Maryland Skipjacks Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland 1907 ships National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Maryland {{SomersetCountyMD-NRHP-stub