Exploring the Ghost Fleet at Mallow’s Bay | Mallow’s Bay is the most varied collection of historic shipwrecks in the Western Hemisphere, spanning over three centuries of American shipbuilding. Known as the Ghost Fleet, most of the ships were built during World War I. The Wilson Administration created the Emergency Fleet Corporation to ramp up ship production in 1917. An ambitious plan was hastily enacted to construct steel, concrete and wooden ships to support the war effort.