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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. She lies approximately one mile north of Galveston Island.
SS Selma was a 1,629-ton cargo ship launched as the Cassiopeia on 2 November 1906, by Nylands Verksted in Oslo, Norway. Renamed Selma in 1915. Mined and sunk off North Foreland on 25 October 1915. [3] SS Selma was a 6,287-ton concrete-constructed tanker built for the US government and completed in January 1920, by Ley in Mobile, USA.
During the late 19th century, there were concrete river barges in Europe, and during both World War I and World War II, steel shortages led the US military to order the construction of small fleets of ocean-going concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma. [2] United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for concrete ...
Mississippi Shipping Company (also called Delta Line) of New Orleans, Louisiana was a passenger and cargo steamship company founded in 1919. In 1961 officially changed its name to the Delta Line . The Mississippi Shipping Co. serviced port from the Gulf of Mexico and east coast of South America .
SS Trondhjemsfjord: 1911: 1914–15: ocean liner: 4,248 GRT: Sunk 28 July 1915 by torpedo. SS Norefjord: 1919: 1921–49: cargo ship: 3,082 GRT: Ran aground, captured and beached by rebels, shelled by the Indonesian Navy and burnt out 1958. Scrapped 1966. SS Foldenfjord: 1921: 1921–28: tanker ship: 7,038 GRT: Sunk by Japanese submarine I-25 ...
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The United States Maritime Commission was an independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government that was created by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, which was passed by Congress on June 29, 1936, and was abolished on May 24, 1950. The commission replaced the United States Shipping Board which had existed since World War I.
CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She served in the Confederate Navy first as Florida , and later as Selma . She was captured by the Union Navy steamer USS Metacomet during the Battle of Mobile Bay.