In the 1920s, over 100 World War I wooden steamships were moved to Maryland’s Mallows Bay for salvage; a century later, the wrecks shelter fish, beavers and birds

A century ago, the wooden steamships gathered in Maryland’s Mallows Bay were remnants of a wartime shipbuilding programme that had produced more vessels than the market could absorb. After the war, efforts were made to salvage their valuable materials, with some ships stripped and burned so their engines and boilers could be recovered.

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