The Potomac & the Virginia Chesapeake
From Point Lookout to the Washington reaches
The Potomac was a working river of steamboats, schooners and wartime gunboats, and its shallows hold one of the largest concentrations of abandoned vessels in the country.
Civil War operations, steamboat fires and the Mallows Bay ghost fleet left a long record of losses between Point Lookout and the capital.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableAdway
AH-WR-1594Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 12 October 1928; probably later beached for scrapping. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAlabat
AH-WR-1595Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 12 October 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAlapaha
AH-WR-1596Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Bonded for burning on 13 August 1929; exact disposal date unknown. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAlcis
AH-WR-1597Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 27 April 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAllison
AH-WR-1598Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Hull recorded in its present location since at least 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAlpaca
AH-WR-1599Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 12 October 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAlta
AH-WR-1600Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Hull recorded in its present location since at least 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAndra
AH-WR-1601Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 27 April 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAngelina
AH-WR-1602Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 17 March 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableAnoka
AH-WR-1603Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Hull recorded in position since 1929, with slight movement. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableArado
AH-WR-1604Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 17 March 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBaladan
AH-WR-1605Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 27 April 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBanicia
AH-WR-1606Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 27 April 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBattahatchee
AH-WR-1607Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 27 April 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBedminster
AH-WR-1608Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Hull recorded in its present location since at least 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBelgrade
AH-WR-1609Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Hull recorded in its present location since 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBellbrook
AH-WR-1610Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 28 July 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBobring
AH-WR-1611Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 28 July 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBockonoff
AH-WR-1612Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 27 April 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBottineau
AH-WR-1613Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Hull recorded in its present location since at least 1929. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableBoxley
AH-WR-1614Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Burned before 21 December 1928. · Cargo Steamship
AvailableCaponka
AH-WR-1075Tappahannock, Virginia
Beached at Tappahannock by 1926; burned to the waterline in a fire reported by local accounts around the late 1940s · Wooden Steamship
AvailableGreyhound
AH-WR-1076Hog Island, James River, Virginia
1864 · Sidewheel Steamer
AvailableHarriet DeFord
AH-WR-1077Rappahannock River, Virginia
1865 · Steamer
AvailableJ.R. Moffett
AH-WR-1078St. Catherine's Island, Potomac River, Maryland
1919 · Schooner · 30 ft deep
AvailableRiver Queen
AH-WR-1079Washington, D.C.
1911 · Sidewheel Steamer
AvailableS.S. Arthur Newell Talbot
AH-WR-1080Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Scuttled in 1948 to form a breakwater · Concrete Cargo Ship
AvailableS.S. Edwin Thatcher
AH-WR-1081Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Scuttled in 1948 to form a breakwater · Concrete Cargo Ship
AvailableS.S. Leonard Chase Wason
AH-WR-1083Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Scuttled in December 1948 to form a breakwater · Concrete Cargo Ship
AvailableS.S. Robert Whitman Lesley
AH-WR-1084Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Scuttled in December 1948 to form a breakwater · Concrete Cargo Ship
AvailableS.S. William Foster Cowham
AH-WR-1085Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Scuttled in December 1948 to form a breakwater · Concrete Cargo Ship
AvailableS.S. Willis A. Slater
AH-WR-1082Kiptopeke State Park, Cape Charles, Virginia
Scuttled in 1948 to form a breakwater · Concrete Cargo Ship
