SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel. She lies approximately one mile north of Galveston Island.

The SS Selma, a World War I reinforced concrete tanker scuttled decades ago off the coast of Galveston, Texas, and visible above the water line, is no longer just a local curiosity.

S. S. Selma. The S. S. Selma was an oil tanker constructed by F. F. Ley & Company, in Mobile, Alabama and launched on June 28, 1919. She is the sister ship of the S. S. Latham. On May 11, 1920, the Selma struck a jetty at Tampico, Florida and was damaged.

Such a ship was in fact constructed using 100% expanded shale lightweight aggregate and it was launched in June 1919. She was christened the U.S.S. Selma, after the city in Alabama and honoring it for a Liberty Loan drive.

CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She served in the Confederate Navy first as Florida, and later as Selma. She was captured by the Union Navy steamer USS Metacomet during the Battle of Mobile Bay.

Jun 3, 2024 · The S.S. Selma was an experimental oil tanker ship made from concrete during the final months of World War I. The United States experimented with concrete as a shipbuilding material as a way to conserve steel during wartime.

Apr 27, 2019 · GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Fans of a near-century-old concrete ship that has been partly submerged in the Houston Ship Channel since 1922 warn it could be fully underwater in a matter of years. The SS Selma launched from Mobile, Alabama, in June 1919.

Dec 22, 2013 · A remnant of the experimental concrete ships approved by Woodrow Wilson during the World War I steel shortage, the SS Selma was built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company of Mobile, Alabama. The...

A 7500-ton reinforced expanded shale concrete tanker, the USS Selma was constructed at Mobile, Alabama, and launched on June 26, 1919. After several years’ service this vessel was purposely sunk in Galveston Bay where it has lain partially submerged ever since.

Dec 16, 2018 · Steel shortages during World War I led the U.S. to build experimental concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma, today partially submerged in Galveston Bay and visible from this site. It was built in Mobile, Alabama, and named to honor Selma, Alabama, for its successful wartime liberty loan drive.