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Mallows Bay National Marine Sanctuary

A fleet of wooden ghosts on the Lower Potomac

Independent companion site for the Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary.

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Weather 89°F Sunny
Wind 2 mph WSW
Next tide 3:48 pm 0.799 ft
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A fleet of wooden ghosts

Nearly 200 vessels built to win the First World War were towed here and burned. A century later, what remains is a tidal forest growing out of their bones.

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Piscataway homeland

Mallows Bay sits on the ancestral and contemporary homeland of the Piscataway people. The shoreline you paddle is a living cultural landscape, not an empty stage for a 20th-century salvage story.

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