This ship graveyard contains the graves of 230 United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation ships sunk in the river in 1925. These ships were wooden hulled steamships made to a poor design during the Great War– the Liberty Ships of WWI if you will– then sold for their value as scrap.
Bethlehem Steel came down there in WWII and scraped up all the easy to reach steel for use in other enterprises, but the keels and wooden parts that escaped burning are still there, in the mud.
Mallows Bay is now in the process of protection under the National Marine Sanctuaries Act
