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About the Chesapeake > Exploring the Bay > Chesapeake Bay Workboats > Pungy
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| Key Features: | A schooner-type vessel distinctive to the Chesapeake, 30 to 80 feet long, with features including a sharp V hull, a clipper bow, and a solid log rail. Pungies carried one jib and a main topsail, and the rig was proportionately taller and lighter than that of a typical gaff schooner, with more rake to the masts.. A handful were built with shallow draft and a centerboard and were known as she-pungies or square-rigged bugeyes. They typically were painted green and a rose-tan “pungy pink.” |
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| Period of Use: | c. 1847 to 1940 |
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| Use: | Oyster dredging, general freighting |
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| Interesting Facts: | In the 1920s several of the last Chesapeake pungies were taken to California to be used in the movie Old Ironsides. They were destroyed by fire during filming. |
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| Where to see one: | - Living Classrooms Foundation, Baltimore (Lady Maryland)
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