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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.
Unfortunately, in 1920, the Selma hit a jetty, ripping a 60 foot hole in her hull. After several failed attempts to repair her, it was decided to intentionally scuttle the ship in Galveston Bay where she still rests to this day.
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.
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.
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. She was wrecked on 31 March 1901, while carrying a cargo of phosphate.
Abstract: 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.
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The SS Selma did better. She served several coastal ports until she too hit a jetty, this one outside Tampico, Mexico. She suffered a 60-foot crack in her side and had to be towed into Galveston. She could've been repaired; but no one there knew how to mend a long crack in a concrete ship.
