Mallows Bay is a small bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The bay is the location of what is regarded as the "largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere " [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is described as a "ship graveyard."

Located in Mallows Bay near the Maryland town of Nanjemoy, the Ghost Fleet is the largest and most varied collection of historic shipwrecks in the Western Hemisphere, spanning over three centuries of American shipbuilding.

2023年5月19日 · Mallows Bay, about 30 miles down the Potomac from D.C., is best known as a graveyard for wooden ships from World War I. These remains have created extraordinary habitats—some call them “floating forests”—for plants and animals.

Kayaking to the Mallows Bay WWII Ghost Fleet along the Potomac River, One of the worlds largest ship graveyards.

In 2002, The Trust for Public Land protected the 510-acre Mallows Bay property, the largest ship graveyard in North America. Approximately 130 wooden steamships from World War II, burned to the waterline, lie in the muddy bottom of the Bay.

2016年1月5日 · The Mallows Bay Ghost Fleet comprises one of the largest maritime graveyards in North America. Hardly a bay, it’s just a narrow gouge in the shore along the Potomac River, Charles County, Maryland, but shelters nearly 100 shipwrecks in its shallow, dark waters.

2013年11月11日 · If there were ever a place that could be described as a ship graveyard, it is the murky waters of Mallows Bay. The remains of the fallen ships create a virtual reef of their own on the...

Mallows Bay is unlike anywhere else — and it’s certainly unique within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake and its tributaries are shallow, and flat and muddy at the bottom. But in Mallows Bay, the shipwrecks have become accidental man-made reefs.

2017年5月5日 · Though it’s only a bit more than an hour’s drive out to Mallows Bay from DC, the “ghost fleet” is still a hidden treasure. The area is also well on its way to officially becoming a National Marine Sanctuary, a first for the Chesapeake and its tributaries.

On the Maryland side of the Potomac River just west of Chesapeake Bay, the largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere sits half-sunk and decomposing. In the early 20th century, hundreds of U.S. vessels were sent to Mallows Bay to be destroyed and scrapped – and to this day the remains of dozens can still be seen in the shallow water.