For those who vacation on the Gulf Coast, there is a concrete ship permanently docked here in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. It's is used as a business, ship's chandler..............
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2 posted on
06/06/2019 12:25:21 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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3 posted on
06/06/2019 12:27:59 PM PDT by
al baby
(Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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Concrete with fly ash and Grancrete supplements (5% ish) to reduce water permeability. Add fiberglass fibers to the mix to improve the strength of the concrete mix. Use fiberglass re-bar instead of Iron / steel re-bar. Paint the outer hull with epoxy.
Will last a lot longer than ferro-cement.
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I’m so glad to see this article! My grandfather worked in the shipyard at Wilmington, NC as a young man helping to build concrete ships. I have never even seen any other reference to them until today!!
6 posted on
06/06/2019 12:37:20 PM PDT by
NellieMae
(Here......common sense,common sense,common sense,where'd ya go... common sense......)
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8 posted on
06/06/2019 12:37:43 PM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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The S.S. Atlantus crumbling off of the beach in Cape May NJ, much like our state government.
12 posted on
06/06/2019 12:43:39 PM PDT by
capydick
(“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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When I rode on the Galveston Bay ferry when I was a kid, I was always intrigued by the huge concrete boat in the bay.
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I wonder if any of the ferroconcrete WWII cargo ships are still in use as cargo vessels??
Yours, TMN78247
18 posted on
06/06/2019 1:09:25 PM PDT by
TMN78247
("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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19 posted on
06/06/2019 1:11:02 PM PDT by
Fiddlstix
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In high school, I was on the boating team and we had a cement canoe...it was nice...
21 posted on
06/06/2019 1:18:31 PM PDT by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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The ship in the top picture lies on a reef off the coast of Bimini. I scuba dove around it years ago.
25 posted on
06/06/2019 2:33:50 PM PDT by
painter
( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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Growing up I recall a concrete ship (broken in half) located as a fishing pier near Rio del Mar beach south of Santa Cruz, California. Many kids dropped their first line in the ocean from the old discarded WWI ship.
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That’ll buff right out. (I’m the first to post this? REALLY?)
27 posted on
06/06/2019 3:02:27 PM PDT by
Libloather
(Global warming is AWESOME!)
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Jeanie did everything she could not to let Major Tony Nelson get on a concrete ship.
28 posted on
06/06/2019 3:33:46 PM PDT by
bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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When I was oh-so-many years younger, I remember reading an article in a magazine (Popular Mechanics? Popular Science?) about how to build a ferrocent boat, including pictures of some that were already afloat.
31 posted on
06/06/2019 8:33:38 PM PDT by
Hootowl
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