SS Selma Galveston, Texas
The government built 24 concrete ships during World War 1. The problem with concrete ships is concrete can't be repaired. An expensive lesson. The coast guard put this one in Galveston to mark the channel. It's no longer needed so it was put up for sale..) Only the government would think someone would buy it. Someone was actually living on it for a while. Anyway, it's still sitting there and the Coast Guard is trying to figure out what to do with it. They need to find something else to worry about. It's a tourist attraction now, plus the fisherman love fishing around it. Oh, the sale price is now at one dollar..;)
SS Selma
Called the “Flagship of Texas,” the Selma was an oil tanker that hit a jetty off the coast of Tampico, Florida. The government sent Selma to Galveston for repairs, but the shipwrights had no experience with concrete. She was taken to Pelican Island, Texa in 1922, where she sits today.
SS Selma Galveston, Texas
The government built 24 concrete ships during World War 1. The problem with concrete ships is concrete can't be repaired. An expensive lesson. The coast guard put this one in Galveston to mark the channel. It's no longer needed so it was put up for sale..) Only the government would think someone would buy it. Someone was actually living on it for a while. Anyway, it's still sitting there and the Coast Guard is trying to figure out what to do with it. They need to find something else to worry about. It's a tourist attraction now, plus the fisherman love fishing around it. Oh, the sale price is now at one dollar..;)
SS Selma
Called the “Flagship of Texas,” the Selma was an oil tanker that hit a jetty off the coast of Tampico, Florida. The government sent Selma to Galveston for repairs, but the shipwrights had no experience with concrete. She was taken to Pelican Island, Texa in 1922, where she sits today.