SS ''Peralta'' is a concrete floating
breakwater
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* Breakwater (structure), a structure for protecting a beach or harbour
Places
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* Breakwater Islands, Nunavut, Canada
* Br ...
in
Powell River in
British Columbia. She was built as a concrete
oil tanker
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by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company, and was launched in February 1921. The ship is 128 m long, with a beam of 15.4 m and has a volume of 6,144
GRT.
Her sister ship is . She was acquired in 1924 and converted into a sardine cannery in
Alaska
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. After spending 24 years in this role the ship was moored off
Antioch, California
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. She was bought by Macmillan Bloedel in 1958 and moored as part of a giant floating breakwater in Powell River to protect the company's log storage pond. She is the oldest and largest American-built
concrete ship Concrete ships are built of steel and ferrocement (reinforced concrete) instead of more traditional materials, such as steel or wood. The advantage of ferrocement construction is that materials are cheap and readily available, while the disadvanta ...
still afloat.
With the downsizing of operations at the pulp mill in late 2000, it was proposed to sink the ''Peralta'' as an artificial reef, but this was later rejected.
References
at concreteships.org
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Design 1100 tankers
Concrete ships
Ships built in Oakland, California
1921 ships
Oil tankers
Ships sunk as breakwaters