SS Selma (1919)
Selma
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| Name: | SS Selma |
| Builder: | F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama |
| Launched: | 28 June 1919 |
| Fate: | Abandoned in 1922 |
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| Length: | 425 ft (129.54 m) |
| Beam: | 54 ft (16.46 m) |
| Draught: | 36 ft (10.97 m) |
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SS Selma
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| Location | Galveston, TX |
| NRHP reference # | 93001449 |
| Added to NRHP | January 5, 1994 |
Coordinates: 29°20′39″N 94°47′11″W / 29.3442°N 94.7863°W
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. It lies approximately one mile north of Galveston Island.
Steel shortages during World War I led the US to build experimental concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma, today partially submerged in Galveston Bay and visible from both the Houston Ship Channel and Seawolf Park.
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. As a result, the 7,500-ton ship never served during the war, but instead was placed into service as an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico.
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