It turns out that if you don't need your ship to go fast, all you need to do is have a structure that can produce enough displacement to be bouyant and stable. You could carve a ship out of marble if you wanted.
There's a concrete ship wrecked just offshore of Cape May Point in NJ. It has been deteriorating for many years and soon nothing will remain above the waterline.
I grew up in South Hylton where the Cretehawser was basically dumped near Claxheugh Rock (good luck pronouncing that if you’re not a Mackem!) Proper fun 70’s and 80’s adventure to be had getting on board at low tide. Can’t imagine the authorities being happy with kids doing this today!
It had lots of stories associated with it and it was a strange thing to see just sitting there in a shipbuilding town. Happy to see it get a mention on the site [1] and there’s an article with better photos here [2].
Still alive and well in Civil Engineering departments across North America. Their equivalent to Formula Student racing teams in Mechanical Engineering.
I participated in that competition a decade ago. The best teams had a hull that was less than half an inch thick and it didn't leak. We put glass fibers and iirc latex in the concrete mix.
> I tried to correct the nonsense written on the appalling Wikipedia page 'Concrete Ship', only to find myself 'Indefinitely Blocked' from updating Wikipedia. Their grounds were that by citing referenceable facts from this website, I was 'self-promoting' apparently. Self promoting history ? History that has been meticulously researched and is completely free to access ? I then had the audacity to argue with one of the tinpot dictators that run Wikipedia such that I was banned from 'Talk' as well. Closed minds, fake history. This is only important because when you research anything, Wikipedia comes out top. The text then gets repeated ad nauseam. That's the problem...the nonsense on Wikipedia is extrapolated and propagated many times over. For everyone that reads this, a hundred will read Wikipedia and attach what is written to their photo or video. This fact alone means that there is a responsibility on Wikipedia - one that they take extremely lightly - to ensure that statements have adequate and reputable citations. Wikipedia is not a source, Wikipedia is never a source
Pretty strong sentiments - anyone else have this sort of experience? Bit of a bunker buster if the assertions within hold weight...
edit: found the talk page referenced [0]. It's popcorn-worthy at least.
You can make a ship of any material, provided the ship is large enough. That's because the amount of material grows quadratically with size whereas the boyance force grows cubic with size.
Don Alberto is used as retainer wall of one of the multiple rowing clubs in the Tigre area. Used to paddle by it and think it was a wall or something build as a pier
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 30.4 ms ] threadIt turns out that if you don't need your ship to go fast, all you need to do is have a structure that can produce enough displacement to be bouyant and stable. You could carve a ship out of marble if you wanted.
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[1]: https://archive.org/stream/263791532sexualpersonaeartanddeca...
It had lots of stories associated with it and it was a strange thing to see just sitting there in a shipbuilding town. Happy to see it get a mention on the site [1] and there’s an article with better photos here [2].
[1] https://thecretefleet.com/wwi-uk
[2] https://fabulousnorth.com/cretehawser-wreck/
https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...
> I tried to correct the nonsense written on the appalling Wikipedia page 'Concrete Ship', only to find myself 'Indefinitely Blocked' from updating Wikipedia. Their grounds were that by citing referenceable facts from this website, I was 'self-promoting' apparently. Self promoting history ? History that has been meticulously researched and is completely free to access ? I then had the audacity to argue with one of the tinpot dictators that run Wikipedia such that I was banned from 'Talk' as well. Closed minds, fake history. This is only important because when you research anything, Wikipedia comes out top. The text then gets repeated ad nauseam. That's the problem...the nonsense on Wikipedia is extrapolated and propagated many times over. For everyone that reads this, a hundred will read Wikipedia and attach what is written to their photo or video. This fact alone means that there is a responsibility on Wikipedia - one that they take extremely lightly - to ensure that statements have adequate and reputable citations. Wikipedia is not a source, Wikipedia is never a source
Pretty strong sentiments - anyone else have this sort of experience? Bit of a bunker buster if the assertions within hold weight...
edit: found the talk page referenced [0]. It's popcorn-worthy at least.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Concrete_ship#Nonsense_hi...