back to the anchorage on the Potomac and burned to regain remaining scrap. That activity brought protests from watermen and the operation was moved in 1924 to of company owned farmland surrounding Mallows Bay in Maryland. Disposition The EFC was renamed the U.S. Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation by act of Congress 11 February 1927 (44 Stat. 1083). One early president was the former Army officer Albert Clayton Dalton. The Board and Corporation were subsequently abolished on 26 October 1936, and their functions transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission by the Merchant Marine Act (49 Stat. 1985) of 29 June 1936. See also Dundalk Historic District Riverside Apartments Federal Maritime Commission United States Maritime Administration Notes 397 wooden Ferris hulls were partially or fully finished of the thousand hull order by the November 1918 Armistice. References Sources The Bridge To France by Edward N. Hurley, Wartime Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board National Archives: Records of the United States Maritime Commission External links Shipbuilders at the Gray`s Harbor Yards of the Grant-Smith-Porter Co., Aberdeen, WA - Records of the United States Shipping Board (32-PN-5) The Ferris wooden cargo ships of World War I Shipping Board Merchant Military logistics of World War I United States in World War I Controversies in the United States