Chesapeake Bay Oyster Schooner

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=60 BGCOLOR="#339999" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><U>CHESAPEAKE BAY OYSTER SCHOONER</U></B></div> <div> <B><U> MATTIE F. DEAN circa 1930</U></B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#6699CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 35 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chesapeake Bay Pungy"><U><B><IMG SRC="007151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Shrimp Boats at Jekyll Island"><U><B><IMG SRC="008151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="35" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="20" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oil Paintings Printed on Canvas 15 x 30 "><U><B><IMG SRC="00d0d1d0.gif" border=0 width="13" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="27"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oil Paintings Printed on Canvas 15 x 30 "><U><B>Return to Water Color & Oil page</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=420 BGCOLOR="#555555" TEXT="#080000"> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>           </div> <div>    <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>                                                                      </B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>During the latter half of the 19</B><B>th</B><B> Century and the early part of the 20</B><B>th</B><B> Century the work boat king of the Chesapeake Bay fishery industry was the two masted schooner.  Among the most renowned of these bay schooners was the Mattie F. Dean.  As time passed and economic pressures came to bear hard on the oyster fisheries simplified sail rigs and smaller craft requiring less crew and capable of operating in shallow water began to replace the larger and more costly to operate schooner.  The first were the simplified schooner rigs of the bugeye and single masted sloop.  This was soon followed by the smaller and even less costly deadrise hull centerboard Chesapeake Bay Skipjack .</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Shown here at anchor along the shores of the Bay, the Mattie F. Dean was built in 1884 in Madison, Maryland.   As time and progress passed her by she  was abandoned in 1954 in Back Creek in Annapolis.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>