| Details | Nearly a hundred great wooden merchant ships sold for reduction after the war, as well as scores of vessels dating from 1776 to the 1970s, cover the shallow muddy floor of the Potomac River at Maryland’s Mallows Bay, the largest assemblage of historic vessels in the Western Hemisphere. Historian and marine archaeologist Donald Grady Shomette recounts the fascinating tale of this decades-long historical and archaeological survey campaign to document what came to be called the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay. |
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