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Mono

Steamship · United States · Lost Abandoned and scuttled in the Mallows Bay Ghost Fleet in the 1920s-1930s. · Chesapeake Bay

Mono, a wooden World War I emergency steamship, was abandoned at Mallows Bay after the war ended the need for her hurried construction.

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The Vessel and Her Loss

Mono was a wooden steamship built under the rushed World War I Emergency Fleet Corporation shipbuilding program. Like many of her sister vessels, she became surplus once the war ended and submarine losses no longer needed replacing. She was towed to Mallows Bay on the Potomac River, where failed scrapping efforts left her timbers as part of the Ghost Fleet that remains today.

Vessel

Built: 1918
Builder: Not established
Yard: Not established
Material: Wood
Length: Not established
Beam: Not established
Tonnage: Not established
Propulsion: Steam
Owners: U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

Loss

Date: Abandoned and scuttled in the Mallows Bay Ghost Fleet in the 1920s-1930s.
Cause: Intentional sinking
Location: Mallows Bay, Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay watershed
Water: Chesapeake Bay
Voyage: Not established
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Not established
Master: Not established