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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 .
SS Selma (1871) was a 1,172-ton cargo ship launched as the Elf on 19 August 1871, by William Doxford & Sons, Pallion, England. She was renamed several times, in 1900 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.
Jun 3, 2024 · Built by F. T. Ley & Company in Mobile, Mobile County, the S.S. Selma launched on June 28, 1919, the same day World War I officially ended. It was subsequently sold by the government to a private company and entered service as an oil tanker servicing several ports on the Gulf Coast.
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...
SS Selma was built in Mobile, Alabama, and named to honor Selma, Alabama, for its successful wartime liberty loan drive. The ship was launched on June 28, 1919, the same day Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I.
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.
