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Casmalia

Wooden Steam Cargo Ship · United States · Lost Brought to Mallows Bay for scrapping in the 1920s · Chesapeake Bay

One of the many World War I wooden supply steamers whose short working life ended almost as soon as it began, now resting in the Mallows Bay ghost fleet.

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Artistic recreation based on recorded historical documents. See the documented evidence.

Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

Casmalia was one of the wooden cargo steamships built under the United States Shipping Board's hurried wartime program, intended to move war material to Europe. The Armistice arrived before ships of her kind could be fully put to use, leaving many, including Casmalia, with little or no operational history before retirement. She was towed to the Potomac River and scrapped at Mallows Bay along with the rest of the wooden fleet.

Vessel

Built: 1918
Builder: Not established
Yard: Not established
Material: Wood
Length: Not established
Beam: Not established
Tonnage: Not established
Propulsion: Steam, single screw
Owners: United States Shipping Board

Loss

Date: Brought to Mallows Bay for scrapping in the 1920s
Cause: Intentional sinking
Location: Mallows Bay, Potomac River
Water: Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay watershed
Voyage: Not established
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Not established
Master: Not established

The Wreck Today

Depth: Not established
Condition: Not established
Orientation: Not established
Discovered: Not established
Protection: Within Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary and the Mallows Bay-Widewater National Register Historic District

Position

Coordinates: 38.47° N 77.27° W
Accuracy: General area only
Nearest: Mallows Bay, Charles County, Maryland
Region: Chesapeake Bay

General area only: coordinate of Mallows Bay from the USGS Geographic Names Information System, marking the named place of loss recorded for this vessel, not a surveyed wreck position.