S. S. Selma - Concrete ship...believe it or not by jimken61
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It was kind of hazy out and I took this shot from a moving ferry leaving out of Galveston, Texas. It shows in the pic but it's still very interesting. This is a concrete ship, an oil tanker, that was launched in 1919 from Mobile, Alabama. Check out the links below for more info. Thanks for your views and comments.
http://www.concreteships.org/
http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/selma/
Comments (7)
Richardphotos
the other one was at least before, at Santa Cruz,CA. I love that ferry ride from Galveston across the channel. excellent capture considering the fog
Buffalo1
Yup. This was part of a WWI scheme to save steel. Great capture of our neighborhood attractions!
BigDen
They used them in WWII also. My grandfather worked at Todd Shipyards on the Houston shipchannel and they built several. If you cross the Fred Hartman bridge from Baytown to La Porte and look off the the right on the far shore, you can see a large patch of square water next to the Dupont Chemical plant. This was a dock area for making concrete ships for WWII also. Somewhere up on the east coast there is suppose to be a graveyard of abandoned concrete ships. Around Maryland, in one of the esturaries I think.....Great History Oh, we take the ferry ride over to Bolivar about 3 times a year, when the traffics not too bad.....
Valerie-Ducom
wowwwwwwwwwwwww , excellent picture and your lighting and composition is perfectly!!! I hope you have a very nice day and hugs :D
L8RDAZE
There's one of these concrete ships wrecked in the waters off Sunset Beach in Cape May, New Jersey. It's called the Atlantus.
weesel
Not sure about concrete ships in/around MD, but there is a ghost fleet from WW1 of wooden-hulled ships. They were so poorly constructed, they never sailed and were laid up for years. Finally, I believe around WW2,they were burned to the waterline to salvage the metal used in them. The hulks still float and are chained together IIRC in/near the Potomac. Sometimes one breaks loose and has to be hunted down. Sounds like a lot of wasted energy on some builder's scam from back when.
Flannelman
Wow, I have fished there often. Cool reminder of something taken for granted as wreck. thanx ;-)