Moosabee
![Close up of Moosabee (circled in red), one of the Three Sisters wrecks that are located along the shoreline of Mallows Bay, Maryland.](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-circled-close-up-1000.jpg)
Ship Stats
![Aerial drone photographic mosaic of Mallows Bay, Maryland](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-circled-400.jpg)
State ID: 18CH551
Vessel Type: Merchant vessel (steamship)
Location: 38°28'28.16"N, 77°16'2.89"W (38.47449, -77.26747) (Duke University, 2016)
Length: 281 feet 10 inches
Breadth: 45 feet 2 inches
Deadweight Tonnage: 3,500
Builder: G.M. Standifer Construction Corporation, Vancouver, Washington
Owner: Titled to the State of Maryland under the Abandoned Shipwreck Act
Flora & Fauna: Dense vegetation covers the entire vessel
Significance: United States Shipping Board vessel built for World War I effort
Wreck Site
![Screenshot of drone footage of Moosabee in Mallows Bay, Maryland](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-duke-university-1000.jpg)
Moosabee is part of a group of three wrecks called "The Three Sisters," which include the sites of Moosabee, Dertona, and an unidentified wreck. The bow of Moosabee is in an excellent state of preservation, and lies only 3 feet from the bluff shoreline. Survey of the remains indicate it measures over 267 feet in length, and 44 feet at beam (width). There is extensive evidence of fire damage throughout the forward half of the vessel. The remains of Moosabee are resting on its keel. Moosabee does not appear in its current location on the 1952 aerial photographs and apparently was towed or migrated there between 1952 and 1986, after having experienced some migration from its 1929 grounding site.
![Aerial drone photographic mosaic of Three Sisters wrecks](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-three-sisters-1000.jpg)
![dignitaries on a raised podium with people looking up from below](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-archives-02-400.jpg)
![Photograph of the inside of Moosabee, hull number 23 under construction](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-archives-10-400.jpg)
![bow of Moosabee, hull number 23, under construction](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-archives-06-400.jpg)
![Photograph of dignitary Miss Elizabeth Boschke, daughter of George W. Boschke of the Oregon Rail and Navigation Company, holding flowers and standing near the bow of Moosabee](/media/img/20221115-moosabee-archives-07-400.jpg)