The fleet traces its origins back to the federal government’s emergency shipbuilding effort during World War I, when the ...

From the kayak I was in, I looked over toward the wreck of the Benzonia, a 1919 World War I steamship, whose wooden bow rises several feet out of the water at low tide. WAMU Visuals Editor Tyrone ...

CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (ABC7) — The shapes emerge at low tide. They are more than 100 sunken World War I era steamships, the ghost fleet of Mallows Bay, on the Potomac just 40 miles from DC. The outlines ...

Kayakers make their way through the 18-square-mile Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. Hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant that abounds in late summer, gives paddlers a workout.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A National Marine Sanctuary would be a first for Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. The ghost fleet of Mallows Bay are now a big step closer to that designation. Mallows Bay sits in a ...

Perhaps Mallows Bay is a frozen cove on the coast of Alaska. Maybe it’s in Scotland or Ireland. Actually, it is in Maryland and not on the Chesapeake. It is on the Potomac River, about 30 miles ...

NANJEMOY, Md. (WUSA9) -- Mallows Bay in Charles County, Md. is well known as the nation's largest collection of historic shipwrecks. But time and nature could turn the bay into a National Marine ...

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CHARLES COUNTY, Md. -- It may be one of Maryland's least known historic places, but the Obama Administration is putting Mallows Bay back on the map. Alex Demetrick reports for WJZ. Mallows Bay is on ...

In a quiet inlet halfway down the Potomac River, Don Shomette pushes off a muddy landing in his weather-beaten canoe. It's a trip he's made thousands of times but as he rounds the corner upon scores ...

Historians discovered that earlier references to Mallows Bay called it “Marlow’s Bay.” It was erroneously spelled Mallows when the War Department issued the orders to beach and burn the surplus ships ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine archaeologist Don Shomette sits on the remains of a decaying sunken vessel left over from World War I in Mallows Bay near ...