The ''Minnie V'' is a

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skipjack, built in 1906 at

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, United States. It is a 45.3-foot-long, two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. It has a beam of 15.7 feet and a depth of 3 feet with a net registered tonnage of 8 tons. It is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. It is located at

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, Talbot County, Maryland. The ''Minnie V'' is featured as the working skipjack in the television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (third-season episode: "The Last of the Watermen"). It was listed on the

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in 1985. it is assigned Maryland dredge number 50, was previously dredge 33.

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*, including photo in 1983, at Maryland Historical Trust Ships in Talbot County, Maryland Skipjacks Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland 1906 ships National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland {{TalbotCountyMD-NRHP-stub