On June 28, 1919, the first concrete-hulled ship built in Mobile, the USS Selma, was launched and prepared to aid allied forces. On June 28, 1919, ...

In addition to thousands of steel ships, the corporation commissioned 24 ships made of ferrocement, or reinforced concrete. By the time the war ended, however, only a dozen were under construction.

Concrete might not be the first material you'd associate with ships, but during times of steel shortages and wartime necessity, engineers turned to this unlikely solution. These huge concrete ...

The US Shipping Board rolled out the first of 12 concrete ships, S.S. Atlantus, in 1918.

Crumbling into the soft sands of Delaware Bay off Cape May Point, N.J., is the last tangible remnant of the failed dreams of a now long-forgotten Baltimore entrepreneur known as Col. Jesse Rosenfeld.

The capabilities of U.S. concrete ships would remain unproven during the war. By the time builders completed all 420 feet of the S.S. Palo Alto, at the Naval Shipyard in Oakland, World War I was over.

NEWELL | From its humble beginnings as a redimix concrete business by Craig VanderBoom back in 1963, to an entity that ships products nationwide, Boom Concrete has changed with the ...

If you're looking to go kayak someplace unique, check out Kiptopeke State Park has a fleet of partially sunken World War II-era concrete ships just off the shore. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...