Waves Tear Off Stern From SS Palo Alto, aka, 'The Concrete Ship,' in Santa Cruz County

NBC Bay Area ^ | 1/23

[Vendome]

Never knew the name of the ship.

[dware]

Stunning pics!

[chb]

You might want to re-think the coating. The enthusiasts claim that concrete is one of the few materials that does not rapidly deteriorate from exposure to salt water.

[bravo whiskey]

The front fell off. Very funny YouTube video.

[ar10]

Yes, but once you get a crack in the cement and the saltwater gets to the steel inside you get rust jacking or spalling and then it only a matter of time until it all fall apart

[az_gila]

There are (or at least were few years ago) 10 concrete ship hulks forming a breakwater for a paper mill in Powell River, BC.

My picture of the entire breakwater -

My picture of the ex-navy ship Quartz which was nuked as part of the Bikini Atoll tests.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46150.htm

[chb]

That is certainly a case for some form of sealant on the steel. By the way, I did not say or mean to imply that I was one of the enthusiasts.

[piroque]

Another historical concrete ship of WWII ,Fort Duram battle ship ,There was another but off hand can't remember the name

[Reily]

I thought it was called Fort Drum?

[piroque]

your right . duh wasn't sure of the spelling , hadn't thought of it in years

[Reily]

Now I have to look it up & get some specifics!😎

[SirLurkedalot]

Wow.

Lot of childhood memories fishing off that thing...grew up in Santa Cruz. When they fenced it off we’d sneak over the fence at night and drop a line in.

[SirLurkedalot]

Same here.

[21twelve]

A very wealthy friend of my parents had lots of large yachts over the years. I recall he had one built out of concrete out of some place in Florida. I was just a kid at the time and wondered how that worked.

I guess it worked out okay. After he used it for some years he donated it to the local university and they do oceanography with it! (Or - that's what they say, but maybe it is really for the University president's shin-digs).

[GreyFriar]

Ft. Drum, in the entrance to Manila Bay was built on top of El Fraile Island.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Drum_(Philippines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7I324GpCA

[fredhead]

There are a number of concrete ships forming a breakwater at Kiptopeake, on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. They originally were placed there for the ferry terminal, which closed after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel opened in 1964. It’s now a state park.

[P.O.E.]

Remember seeing the concrete ship off Cape May, NJ:

http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/atlantus/