SS ''Peralta'' is a concrete floating

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in Powell River in

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. She was built as a concrete

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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

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. After spending 24 years in this role the ship was moored off

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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 primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. This contrasts against more traditional materials, such as pure steel or wood. The advantage of ferrocement construction is that materials ...

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. However, after the scuttling of YOGN-82 in 2018, a fellow barge completed in 1944, it is now proposed to sink it as an artificial reef at a later date.

References

External links

SS ''Peralta'' at concreteships.org
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