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2. Mallows Bay - Wikipedia

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   Mallows Bay is a small bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The bay is the location of what is regarded as the "largest shipwreck fleet in the Western Hemisphere" and is described as a "ship graveyard." Mallows Bay was declared a National Marine Sanctuary on September 9, 2019.

3. Shipbuilding in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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   The sale of colonial ships built on the British market enabled English merchants to secure cheap tonnage and gave American merchants an important source of income to pay for their imports. All the colonies exported shipping, but once again, New England was the chief contributor. A foreign market during colonial times.

4. Cape May–Lewes Ferry - Wikipedia

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   In July 2010, due to decreasing ridership, the DRBA announced that the vessel was for sale. The Twin Capes was taken out of service and retired in October 2013. On July 20, 2017, the Twin Capes was towed out of the Cape May Terminal to be stripped before a planned sinking as an artificial reef in 2018 in a project led by Captain Tim Mullane.

5. William B. Tennison (bugeye) - Wikipedia

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   March 27, 1980 [1] Designated NHL. April 19, 1994 [2] The William B. Tennison is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye built in 1899 and converted to an oyster buy-boat in 1906–07. With the conversion her sail rig was removed and an engine inserted, and is the only surviving example of this conversion. Her construction marks a transition between log ...

6. Southern Maryland - Wikipedia

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   Southern Maryland, also referred to as SoMD, is a geographical, cultural and historic region in Maryland composed of the state's southernmost counties on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. According to the state of Maryland, the region includes all of Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties and the southern portions of Anne Arundel and ...

7. Oyster buy-boat - Wikipedia

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   An oyster buy-boat, also known as deck boat, is an approximately 40–90 foot long wooden boat with a large open deck which serviced oyster tongers and dredgers. Similar in function to sardine carriers , buy boats circulated among the harvesters collecting their catches, then delivered their loads to a wholesaler or oyster processing house. [1]