Somerset

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results

Type: Skipjack

Year: 1949

Builder: C. H. Rice

Location: Reedville

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Fetch?	Row ID	Catalog #	Object Name	Title	Artist/Maker	Date Made	Place Made	Description	Full Image	CBMM Cat. Page
	1	8888.0018.0000.00	documents	Ernest Tucker (1913 - 1981) Papers (1936 - 1979)		Range, Exa 01/01/1936 - 12/31/1979		Ernest Tucker (1913 - 1981) Papers (1936 - 1979)The collection is comprised of correspondence, newspaper articles, brochures, etc., concerning Ernest Tucker's career as a boat designer and sailor. Also included are photographs of Tucker-designed boats, power and sailing boatsand Chesapeake Bay boatbuilders. The papers were donated to the Museum by his widow, Jane Foster Tucker.Biographical BackgroundErnest Tucker was born on the family estate, Hilton, in Walbrook, a northwestern section of Baltimore. He contracted polio before the age of 2 and was required to wear braces on both legs.Tucker developed a strong interest in boatbuilding and design from an early age. He built his first boat, a 12'5" sailing skiff when only twelve. He attended Johns Hopkins University, School of Mechanical Engineering, 1933-1938.In 1942:, he was employed by the Owens Yacht Co., Dundalk, as project engineer for 36' LCVP's for the Navy. After the war he designed the Owens 40' auxiliary cutter. In 1946 Tucker started at the Annapolis Yacht Yard as draughtsman (which later was sold to John Trumphy and Sons) and worked on many famous boats such as Makarra and Lenore, a famous Presidential yacht.Tucker purchased his beloved double-ended Nassau-built sloop, Half Pint, in 1945, which he used to sail the Bay until the time of his death. In 1958 he became self-employed. His designs included the Dickerson 35, 36, 40 and 41 for the William Dickerson Yard of Fishing Creek (laterTrappe). Always found on the drawings was his trademark, a flying duck. Tucker also made drawings for John Bailey of Tunis Mills, Marine Contractor.After the death of his mother, Ernest Tucker lived on a houseboat in Galesville, Md., was married in 1960, and in 1962 moved to Oxford. The designer was a good friend of C. Lowndes Johnson, noted Talbot County Comet class designer, and his wife Clara. He was a founding member of the Classic Yacht Club of America, member of the Sailing Club of the Chesapeake, and Tred Avon Yacht Club. Ernest Tucker died in August 1981.Scope and ContentThe material is divided into two parts. The first consists of biographical information and information on boats designed by Ernest Tucker. Included in the latter is the well-known series of Dickerson ketches built by DickersonBoatbuilders of Trappe, Maryland. Other designs include deadrise workboats built by Chesapeake Marine Industries of Trappe, and the famous Owens cutters.Ernest Tucker was also a recorder of many varities of sailing and power crafton the Chesapeake through the medium of the camera. Many of these boats no longer exist. Also of value are photographs of many well-known Bay boatbuilders, particularly from Dorchester County. An index of boats is available. The photographs have been divided up into broad subject categories.SubjectsBoatdesigning Boatbuilding Subject: Mrs Ernest Tucker	No image URL.	View
	2	0000.0774.0012.00	negatives	SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLA	Dodds, Richard __Photographer	Range,Exac 10/01/1990 - 10/31/1990		SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLAND Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SKIPJACKS	No image URL.	View
	3	0000.0774.0013.00	negatives	SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLA	Dodds, Richard __Photographer	Range,Exac 10/01/1990 - 10/31/1990		SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLAND Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SKIPJACKS	No image URL.	View
	4	0000.0774.0014.00	negatives	SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLA	Dodds, Richard __Photographer	Range,Exac 10/01/1990 - 10/31/1990		SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLAND Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SKIPJACKS	No image URL.	View
	5	0000.0774.0015.00	negatives	SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLA	Dodds, Richard __Photographer	Range,Exac 10/01/1990 - 10/31/1990		SKIPJACK "SOMERSET" MOORED AT MOUNT VERNON, MARYLAND Old Subject Fields: SAIL VESSELS, SKIPJACKS	No image URL.	View
	6	0000.1465.0023	photographic prints	Skipjack Somerset	James J. Carroll	1/1/1980-1/1/1999	Chesapeake Bay	Port side of Somerset as it passes another skipjack on the starboard side.		View
	7	2000.0049.0001.00	sculpture (visual work)	Painted wooden silhouette of man skulling crabbing	Evans, Waverly __Creator	Circa 01/01/2000 -		Painted wooden silhouette of man skulling crabbing skiff with oar, dip net made from wire and plastic netting stowed under thwart, boat painted; red hull, white sides, turquoise interior, made by Waverly Evans Condition: excellent.		View
	8	0000.1443.0223	slides, color	Bow of skipjack Somerset	Meagan Shaw	11/18/2002	Deal Island, MD	Bow of skipjack Somerset, showing furled jib, bowsprit, name board, martingale and painter tied to a piling		View
	9	0000.1443.0224	slides, color	Bow of skipjack Somerset	Meagan Shaw	11/18/2002	Deal Island, MD	Bow of skipjack Somerset, showing furled jib, bowsprit, name board, martingale and painter tied to a piling		View
	10	0000.1443.0225	slides, color	Bow of skipjack Somerset	Meagan Shaw	11/18/2002	Deal Island, MD	Bow of skipjack Somerset, showing lower part of mast & shrouds, furled jib, martingale and painter tied to a piling		View
	11	0000.1443.0226	slides, color	Bow of skipjack Somerset	Meagan Shaw	11/18/2002	Deal Island, MD	Meagan Shaw seated on a pile of tires in front of a stack of crab pots; work boats docked in background		View
	12	0000.1443.0318	slides, color	Bow of skipjack Somerset	Shelly Drummond	11/18/2002	Deal Island, MD	Bow of skipjack Somerset, showing lower part of mast & shrouds, furled jib, martingale and painter tied to a piling		View
	13	0000.1386.0029	slides, color	Skipjack Somerset	Kelly Feltault	c.2001		Skipjack Somerset up on rails. Two men stand on the starboard side. One man stands with hands on hips and the other man makes adjustments to the side of the skipjack.		View
	14	0000.1386.0030	slides, color	Skipjack Somerset	Kelly Feltault	c.2001		Man finishes Somerset name board. He finishes the letter E on the starboard side of the Skipjack.		View
	15	0000.1249.0030.00	transparency (photographic)	Skipjack bowsprit dangling from a crane				Skipjack bowsprit dangling from a crane above skipjack Somerset on marine railway at CBMM; may be part of Skipjack Restoration Program; Mike Vlahavich on vessel; Bob Savage on platform<CR> Subject: Mike Vlahavich Subject: Bob Savage	No image URL.	View
	16	0000.1249.0031.00	transparency (photographic)	Placing a new bowsprit on skipjack Somerset			Navy Point - St Michaels - Talbot - Eastern Shore - MD - 21663 - USA	Placing a new bowsprirt on skipjack Somerset, on shore at CBMM; may be part of Skipjack Restoration Program<CR>	No image URL.	View