Mallows Bay Park includes a small-craft launch point with shallow-water access to the Potomac River, and the surrounding Mallows Bay-Widewater area contains numerous shipwrecks with varied histories. Accomac, the only steel-hulled vessel in the area, once served the ferry route between Cape Charles and Norfolk, Virginia, before a fire ended her service and she was abandoned near the southern perimeter of Mallows Bay about 1973. Benzonia was launched in Washington in 1919, briefly joined the war effort, was sold in 1922, was moved by Hurricane Isabel in 2003, and later suffered a fire in 2013. Mono, one of 94 U.S. Shipping Board steamships launched in the July 4, 1918 "Tidal Wave," worked the San Francisco-Hawaiian Islands "Pineapple Run" and was among the last vessels permanently placed in Mallows Bay by at least 1929. Yawah made at least one voyage to Genoa in late 1919, was laid up during the Great Ship Tie-up of 1920, later sold for scrapping, and is now entirely submerged at low tide. Casmalia lies at the extreme northern end of Mallows Bay beside an unidentified wooden steamship. At the northern extremity of the embayment, wreckage formed Grady's Spit, a small beach area that also contains hazardous submerged debris. Bayou Teche was another of the 94 ships launched on July 4, 1918, and later made voyages to Havana, Galveston, and Bordeaux. The Three Sisters consist of Dertona, the Heron Wreck, and Moosabee, with Moosabee carrying timber logs to Europe from 1919 until 1922. North Bend, named after a town in Oregon, was the earliest U.S. Shipping Board wooden steamer completed and certified during the Emergency Fleet program and carried merchandise and sugar between the Pacific Coast and the Hawaiian Islands. The Flower Pot Wrecks are the remains of two unidentified U.S. Shipping Board First World War wooden-hulled cargo steamships. Afrania made at least one trans-Atlantic voyage to Rouen in 1919 and now rests partially submerged on her keel. Boone, launched in 1918 before 3,000 spectators and named by the wife of President Woodrow Wilson, had a brief career before being sold for scrap in 1922. During World War Two, Bethlehem Steel Corporation built a salvage basin, now called the Burning Basin, to recover metal from abandoned ships, and a wooden barge with iron fittings was used there as a work platform and for hauling dredge spoil, cargo, and scrap. Oral tradition holds that the Sea Scout Wreck may have been a U.S. Coast Guard patrol vessel or a U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat sold out of service after World War Two.