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Chance Boatyard

historic buildings in Maryland, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5070707 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chance Boatyard is a group of historic buildings at Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It used to be a boat-building and repair complex. Most of the buildings were built between 1913 and 1942 to support the boat-building and repair activity of Chance Marine Construction Corporation and its successors, Annapolis Yacht Yard and John Trumpy & Sons.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chance Boatyard” as historic buildings in Maryland, US. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 1942, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chance, Boatyard and historic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as historic buildings in Maryland, US. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5070707. Authority coordinates are 38.973, -76.482. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913, 1942 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chance Boatyard” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.