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Ghost Fleet of the Potomac
Season 2 · Episode 51

Ghost Fleet of the Potomac

The story of how hundreds of ships wrecks filled Mallows Bay on the Potomac River

History Dispatches

December 22, 202516m 35s

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Show Notes

30 miles south of Washington DC, in a small part of the Potomac River, lies an area called Mallows Bay. This bay is not home to a handful of shipwrecks or even a dozen. Or even 30 or 40 wrecks. Mallows Bay has over 200 wrecked vessels dating back to the 1920s. This is the story of the Ghost Fleet of the Potomac.


Sources

https://savingplaces.org/places/ghost-fleet

https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/press/mallows-potomac/

https://projects.wamu.org/the-ghost-fleet/


Image: By Amaury Laporte - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghost_Fleet_of_Mallows_Bay_009_-_Accomac_Shipwreck_Close-Up.jpg


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