Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Ghost Fleet Graveyard

Located in Mallows Bay, Maryland, it's the place where tens of ships built for the war effort were stripped and abandoned to sink and rot. They have now been reclaimed by nature, and life has come back to them.

Soon, it might become a marine reserve, if President Obama declares it so.

They were built to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to aid the allied effort in World War I, but wound up unused, abandoned, stripped and finally scuttled. 
Almost a century on, the "ghost fleet" of Mallows Bay in the Potomac River, 30 miles south of Washington D.C., is positively brimming with life again. 
Nature has taken hold amid the rotting hulls and rusted bows of the scores of historic vessels, with flora and fauna inundating the areas where sailors and passengers once stood. 
Located near Nanjemoy in Charles County, Maryland, Mallows Bay is not only treasured by locals -- it could be on the brink of wider recognition thanks to efforts to designate it a national marine sanctuary.


A lot more details, facts, and history over at CNN.

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