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Concrete ships are built primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. [1] This contrasts against more traditional materials, such as pure steel or wood. The advantage of ferrocement construction is that materials are cheap and readily available, while the disadvantages are that construction labor costs are ...
SS Atlantus is the most famous of the twelve concrete ships built by the Liberty Ship Building Company [4] in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, during and after World War I. The steamer was launched on 5 December 1918, and was the second concrete ship constructed in the World War I Emergency Fleet. The war had ended a month earlier, and so ...
Pages in category "Concrete ships" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
SS Peralta is a concrete floating breakwater in Powell River in British Columbia. She was built as a concrete oil tanker by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company, and was launched in February 1921. The ship is 128 m long, with a beam of 15.4 m and has a volume of 6,144 GRT. [1] Her sister ship is SS Palo Alto.
Steel shortages during World War I led the US to build experimental concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma, today partially submerged in Galveston Bay and visible from both the Houston Ship Channel and Seawolf Park. SS Selma was built in Mobile, Alabama, and named to honor Selma, Alabama, for its successful wartime liberty loan ...
Work began September 1, 1917; concrete pouring began October 31, 1917 and ended February 26, 1918. [1] The Steam Ship (SS) Faith launched on March 14, 1918, [2] from Redwood City, California. [3] The ship was designed by Alan Macdonald and Victor Poss. It pulled up to 5000 tons, being the largest concrete ship of its time. [4]
This ship was not completed during the Second World War, but after its completion, it served mainly as a digger of dredging currents and as a tugboat to other ships.In 1988, it was proclaimed a German technical monument, and in 2003, she earned a position at the Maritime Ship Museum, [3] [not specific enough to verify] on the Warnow River in Rostock, 250 km north of Berlin.
SS Palo Alto was a concrete ship built as a tanker at the end of World War I.Completed too late to see war service, she was mothballed until 1929, when she was intentionally grounded off Seacliff State Beach in the Monterey Bay, becoming part of a pleasure pier entertainment complex.