In 1929 the Western Marine & Salvage Company moved a fleet of 169 World War I–era steamships to Mallows Bay, a shallow inlet in the Potomac River, where they were burned to make any salvageable ...

In a quiet inlet halfway down the Potomac River, Don Shomette pushes off a muddy landing in his weather-beaten canoe. It's a trip he's made thousands of times but as he rounds the corner upon scores ...

Peter Turcik still remembers the shot. Leaning forward in his kayak, holding his camera still, he snapped a vertical picture of the sunken ship, with the setting sun as its glistening background. “I ...

Mallows Bay in Nanjemoy is one step closer on a long journey toward nomination as a National Marine Sanctuary by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.On the Potomac River, Mallows Bay ...

VR is taking viewers deep into the Chesapeake Bay’s infamous ghost fleet. Located in Charles County, The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay contains the remains of an emergency fleet of steamships that was ...

Conservation groups from around the county came together on Monday evening at the College of Southern Maryland to hear the latest updates on the Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary.

Today's story begins on Mallows Bay, a bay nestled along the Potomac River in Charles County. A little background: if you look at a navigation map of the river, you will see a symbol that looks like ...

Sometimes, history lies hidden just around the corner. Stroll through London's financial district and you might come across the vine-draped ruins of a church bombed during The Blitz. South of ...

Mallows Bay in Charles County has been declared a National Marine Sanctuary. DroneTrak7 captured just a few of the more than 100 World War II-era ships sunk in Mallows Bay after the war. Now, the ...

The first two marine sanctuaries in 15 years will likely be in Lake Michigan and in the Chesapeake Bay. President Barack Obama announced this week that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...