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The only one with a awkward red decoration tow strap usually seen on cars is in the 6th image.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzsncOb3s0&t=552s This image is shown at the timestamp of 6:52 where if I'm being certain, this could take place after the second salvage attempt made by Bethlehem Steel. This image could be lost to time as reverse image search claims that this image was taken in 1936 despite the aerial view appearing to be brighter than the image you see here.

The only composite ships that were here are SS Borad & SS Balino (Design 1010) other than the Botsford & Obak which are not shown in the cluster of ships but noted that they are in sandy point.

Context: These wooden ships are hastily built and no one wanted to buy them, until Western Marine & Salvage came in, they bought 233 ships in September 1922, their plans were to dismantle them, burn them to get remaining scrap, find a marsh and bury them with dredge spoil.

In 1925, due to protests from Maryland watermen, 31 ships were intentionally burned by men. The blaze was spectacular, and the program seemed to be back on track. The hulks were hauled to Mallows Bay and the wrecking process began anew. But soon, as before, owing to poor management and planning, work slowed to a crawl.

As the years slipped by, the company’s sales of salvaged goods failed to keep pace with its costs. By August 1929 WM&SC had brought a total of 169 ships of the emergency fleet into Mallows Bay to await final dismantling. Then, with the great stock market crash in October of that year, the price of scrap plunged. As the Depression deepened, WM&SC’s losses became acute. In March of 1931 it finally shut down operations. By the following year the company had lapsed into bankruptcy, without providing for the disposal of the Mallows Bay hulks.

In December 1934 a local circuit court ruled that the hulks belonged to no one and could be salvaged by anybody. Thereafter, almost every day, scores of independent salvors could be seen dynamiting and picking over the carcasses of the great fleet. A cottage industry in scrap salvage sprang up along the Mallows Bay shoreline. It would eventually account for at least 15 percent of the income of adjacent Charles County. At least 5 floating brothels and no fewer than 26 illegal stills were reportedly erected nearby. The true heyday of “hulk scrapping” had yet to arrive, however.

When World War II began, the price of scrap metal skyrocketed, and on June 28, 1940, the federal government established the Metals Reserve Company to stockpile strategic metals. It spent $200,000 on a project aiming to recover 20,000 tons of iron from 110 hulls still lying in the bay, hiring the giant Bethlehem Steel Corporation to manage the effort.

The recovery project took on industrial proportions. Bethlehem excavated a huge enclosed marine basin and sealed it off from the bay with giant earthen berms and massive floating gates that could be opened and closed. Ships could be towed into the basin, the gates locked, the creek-fed water pumped out, and the hulks burned down completely, leaving only their metal fittings.

But the process proved too exhausting and expensive even for Bethlehem. By the end of 1943 the company had spent $360,000, fewer than a dozen vessels had been burned down, and the amount of iron salvaged had been minimal. On September 22, 1944, Bethlehem ordered a shutdown of its Mallows Bay operations.

After two decades of efforts, the scrapping of the U.S. Shipping Board’s wooden steamship fleet had finally come to an end. Yet nearly 100 EFC hulks remained in the bay, along with the bones of numerous other vessels. For the next two decades the Mallows Bay ghost fleet would sleep undisturbed.

I found this image in https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?167543 and it was the only site that posted this image. I was wondering, was it possible to find the oldest origin considering that this was probably the last image of the Polias entire hull being above water before she slid into deeper waters

These two ships were burned in Boston Harbor to salvage remaining scrap that weren't destroyed by the fire. For the final image, the already fire destroyed ship is how the ones from WM&S looked after being burned

Unlike her sisters, she is pretty much afloat with plans of turning her into a artificial reef being stopped. I would like more images of her bow at that angle but directly at the front. Its kinda cool that she is the only floating example of her type (Design 1100) left, there was meant to be a third sister to Palo Alto & Peralta named Wallemar although a cargo version of Design 1100 known as Design 1101 but was never built and cancelled

Image source: unknown (it was from a facebook post but it linked directly to something different that had no correlation to Peralta directly)

Yes, this used to be the Dinsmore, a EFC-built WW1 concrete tanker. The Dinsmore was damaged on her launch in 30th June 1920 ironically, her sister Moffitt had suffered similar damage at construction. It is not exactly confirmed for now whether this is the "Dinsmore," despite the source of the second image saying that this is the SS Latham, although Latham is buried as a embankment at Frontera, Mexico with 5 other concrete vessels and 3 steel-hulled ships.

There were originally supposed to be 6 more built at the same shipyard, Pacific Marine Construction Company as the two ships but due to Armistice, they were cancelled. Cuyamaca is lost in Frontera with SS Latham, SS Faith, two concrete oil barges named Rosedale & Helena & Moffitt buried somewhere in Grijalva Canal and San Pasqual is at Cayo Las Brujas, Cuba, stuck there forever since 1933 although she in far better shape than SS Palo Alto and SS Selma.

As seen, the torpedo is somehow out of the water, striking on the Junyo Maru's rear superstructure section and everything about the crowd looks wrong in the image. This feels like a disrespect to what actually happened on the hell ship

Real life image of SS Junyo Maru

I have seen people from other countries such as Philippines or UK hate on bus spotters, telling them to get a real job or get a normal hobby or saying that all buses look the same, which in certain countries yes, but in Myanmar, they (specifically private buses) look unique to each other. Most videos involving YBS buses other than YBS Explorer are either accidents, road rage, crimes or anything bad specifically on social media (im not talking about news channels/sites). What are your thoughts on the rare community of bus spotters in Myanmar like I am?

I found this image from the map involving around the Mallows Bay Ghost Fleet and saw this image, I was wondering where they even got the front photo of these ships being intentionally burnt came from

If you have been living in Yangon, I assume you have seen buses like these, that always have led lights, michelin man and etc on them. What are your thoughts on the owners or drivers of these buses add

This bus has been long gone since 2017 after being replaced by more newer front engined Yutong ZK6100NGA9s, and till this day, I do not know the model name of this bus

Photo from Akkharawin Khainbandit and Patiparn.Nice2002bkk

Photo Credit: https://spacerunner.web.fc2.com/