Concrete ships of World War I & II

Concrete ships of World War I & II

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A large part of victory a war is to produce the materials and means needed to continue fighting with that war.

Aircraft, trucks, tanks and ships are just a number of means needed for a war effort.

In order to have a continuous line of these things to the first routes, you need raw materials - as well as industrial workforce and infrastructure to build them, of course.

In any battle, it naturally for some scarcity materials.

And this is exactly the case in both World War I and II with steel.

When each prolonged war, steel becomes unclear in the use of civilians when the military requests all to create weapons, ammunitions and important means needed on the previous routes.

Thus, the production of civil vehicles has become a part after facing the necessary military machines.

Emergency fleet of World War I

When the first world war seems to continue without ending in vision, steel began to become scarce, and the United States had an idea.

In response to more important military use for steel, US President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels.

After all, concrete is a solid material that can make some penalties, plus it is quite floating and therefore a very suitable vessel production material.

With a $ 50 million budget for the ship's total fleet, construction begins at the end of 1917.

However, at the time the war ended only 12 out of 24 has been built.

12 concrete vessels have been sold into civil service and live life relatively dissatisfied.

However, one of them, a tanker called S.S.

Even more interesting is the life of Steamer S.s.

McCloskey ships of World War II

During the second world war, again, is a scarce item.

In 1942, the US Marine Commission signed McCloskey and Philadelphia's company to build a fleet of 24 new concrete vessels.

After 20 years of breakthroughs in concrete technology, the new era of concrete vessels lighter, stronger and faster than predecessors in World War I.

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Each McCloskey ship is named after the pioneers in the development and science of concrete.

Two of the ships were immersed to play Hung Thi's role in the invasion of Normandy Allied as part of Overlord operating, two people are currently being used as a jetty in Yaquina Bay in Newport in Oregon, and