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1 posted on 01/23/2017 11:57:29 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Looks like a poop covered gull magnet......


2 posted on 01/23/2017 12:00:39 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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“Abandon ship!”

I grew up going to generally cold Rio Del Mar beach in Aptos, Calif. and wondered about that ship out there. Didn’t know it was called the SS Palo Alto - I grew up in Palo Alto.


3 posted on 01/23/2017 12:01:37 PM PST by Jim W N
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Wow, back in 2001 when I was 12 we visited Santa Cruz and seeing the "Cement Boat" was a big deal.

Just how did they expect that work?

4 posted on 01/23/2017 12:02:38 PM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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Many years ago, when the first Whole Earth Catalog came out, there was an article about ferroconcrete ship hulls. I read a bit more, and soon found that experiments had been done to find the optimum ratio of steel to concrete for hull strength. It was 100% steel, zero concrete...


5 posted on 01/23/2017 12:03:04 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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We have one here.
It was turned into a floating marine supplies store..............


6 posted on 01/23/2017 12:06:54 PM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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The front fell off!
10 posted on 01/23/2017 12:08:51 PM PST by Obadiah (Welcome to the revolution!)
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To: nickcarraway

So this thing hasn’t actually moved or even floated for over 70 years.


12 posted on 01/23/2017 12:13:00 PM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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Jeannie was right not wanting Tony to get on a cement ship.

13 posted on 01/23/2017 12:13:13 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: nickcarraway

There’s the remains of a concrete ship just south of Bimini, Bahamas.
USS Sapona. Understand it was used in rum running days.
Snorkeled through it. Fascinating.
Can see parts of the engine and other debris. Schools of Yellow-tail snapper.
Oh, and barracuda as long as you.!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sapona


14 posted on 01/23/2017 12:15:09 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: nickcarraway
Cool pics. Here's one that I found...


16 posted on 01/23/2017 12:25:49 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Used to fish off that thing back in the day.


18 posted on 01/23/2017 12:45:49 PM PST by lardog ( Glad Obama is gone)
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I’ve come to believe that calling a ship unsinkable or indestructible, etc, is tantamount to daring God to prove you wrong.

He has a tendency to take up the offer.


20 posted on 01/23/2017 12:54:08 PM PST by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: nickcarraway

Never knew the name of the ship.


21 posted on 01/23/2017 12:56:19 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: nickcarraway

Stunning pics!


22 posted on 01/23/2017 1:19:39 PM PST by dware (I love waking up in a world with President-elect Trump!)
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Another historical concrete ship of WWII ,Fort Duram battle ship ,There was another but off hand can't remember the name


28 posted on 01/23/2017 4:17:03 PM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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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.


32 posted on 01/23/2017 6:06:49 PM PST by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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Remember seeing the concrete ship off Cape May, NJ:

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


37 posted on 01/24/2017 4:31:13 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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