Annapolis & the Upper Chesapeake
The Severn, the Patapsco and the head of the Bay
The upper Chesapeake carried the traffic of Baltimore and Annapolis: bay steamers, schooners, oyster dredgers and naval craft moving between the Patapsco, the Severn and the Susquehanna Flats.
Shoal water, winter ice and dense summer traffic made the upper Bay a place of collisions and strandings rather than deepwater foundering. Many hulls remain buried in soft mud within sight of the shore.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableA. Woodall
AH-WR-1074Pooles Island, upper Chesapeake Bay
December 1924 · Cargo Vessel
AvailableAlum Chine
AH-WR-1068Fort Carroll, Baltimore Harbor
1913 · Cargo Steamer
AvailableBritannia
AH-WR-1067Fort McHenry Channel, Baltimore Harbor
1920 · Steam Tug
AvailableEmma Giles
AH-WR-1070Curtis Creek, Baltimore
Burned for scrap sometime after her 1936 retirement from steamer service, following further use as a barge and breakwater. · Excursion And Packet Steamer
Historical ListingGovernor R. M. McLane
AH-WR-1069Locust Point, Baltimore
Abandoned and sank at her mooring in 1954, according to a Baltimore Museum of Industry historical marker. · Patrol Steamer
AvailableLouise
AH-WR-1066Fort Carroll, Baltimore Harbor
1890 · Excursion Steamer
AvailableOmega
AH-WR-1073Patapsco River, Baltimore Harbor approaches
1865 · Schooner
AvailableVesper
AH-WR-1071Denton, Maryland
Sank about 1930, per Caroline County Historical Society research. · Freight And Passenger Steamer
