I happened upon a MetaFilter thread on concrete ships last week that led me to Concrete Ships.org, a very informative page on the history of such vessels. Even neater is that I saw one of the more famous of such vessels during my vacation to Cape May, New Jersey last month. The S.S. Atlantus is a fairly famous shipwreck just off the shore of Sunset Beach, New Jersey, just west of Cape May.
Sunset Beach also happens to be the site of a flag-lowering ceremony that takes place every evening at sunset. “All of the flags that [are flown at the] mast are veterans’ casket flags that have been donated by the families,” making for quite a solemn and touching ceremony. Below is one of the pictures of the shipwreck that I took at sunset; click on the picture to see a larger version at flickr.
