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Default WWI-era concrete ship, the USS Selma, deteriorating in Texas harbor

WWI-era concrete ship, the USS Selma, deteriorating in Texas harbor

02-20-2020 09:13 AM

To conserve steel during World War I, Mobile, Alabama, shipbuilders turned to an unlikely building material: concrete. On June 28, 1919, the first concrete-hulled ship built in Mobile, the USS Selma, was launched and prepared to aid Allied forces.


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