The skipjack Flora A. Price was built at Chase, Maryland, in 1910.  She was one of the largest skipjacks ever built.  Flora lived briefly on the upper Choptank at Denton.

Flora dredged Chesapeake oysters for 70 years, sailed as a yacht for awhile, and was finally donated to the now-inactive Old Harford Town Maritime Center (OHTMC) in Denton.  She arrived at Denton in February 2000.

OHTMC had earlier acquired the skipjack FC Lewis Jr. and funding to preserve her as a landside exhibit.   Flora arrived at OHTMC about the same time as the skipjack Maggie Lee.  OHTMC planned to use Flora and Maggie as a living classrooms for boatbuilding and maritime skills.

During spring and summer of 2001, OHTMC volunteers refinished her spars and re-stepped her mammoth 75-foot mast at Caroline Summerfest.  But over the next several winters, it was hard for the small group of volunteers to keep the pumps running in Flora’s bilge, and there was no funding for professional repair and restoration.

In 2008, OHTMC handed over Flora A. Price to the Jim Richardson Foundation in Cambridge.  At that time, she was the largest surviving skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay and had been recently named one of the 11 Endangered Skipjacks by Preservation Maryland. The Richardson Museum was  working on a restoration plan and hoped to raise money for the restoration through grants and donations.  Like OHTMC in Denton, the Museum expected to use Flora for tours and educational programs.

But it didn’t happen.  Spinsheet and Last Skipjacks Project both reported that Flora A. Price had sunk in Cambridge Harbor, and in spring 2013 she was raised, broken up, and burned.

Our best photos and memories of Flora A. Price during her stay in Denton are here.

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