Sigsbee

Sigsbee is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, a vessel designed and built specifically to dredge for oysters on the Bay. Once numbering in the thousands, only a handful of skipjacks survive today, and together they constitute the last sailing commercial fleet in North America. Originally built in 1901, Sigsbee was named after Charles D. Sigsbee, the captain of the ill-fated battleship Maine. She served in the oystering fleet for 88 years and became notable as the first skipjack with a woman captain. After Living Classrooms Foundation acquired the vessel in 1990, a team of shipwrights and students rebuilt Sigsbee and returned her to work as part of the Foundation's educational fleet. Sigsbee sails daily as a living classroom, offering students hands-on opportunities to observe and learn about the history, economics, and ecology of the Chesapeake Bay and to participate in environmental restoration projects.

Baltimore, Maryland · United States