Kiptopeke State Park's unusual breakwater made of concrete ships will be featured on a television show. Discovery's Science Channel will feature the breakwater on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 9 p.m. on the ...

An abandoned concrete barge has been sitting off the coast of DuPont for more than 60 years. If you time it right, at low tide you can follow a long sandbar littered with barnacled logs and metal ...

WILMINGTON -- At precisely 11:45 a.m. on July 8, 1921, the General George Gibson -- the fifth concrete river vessel built at Newport Shipbuilding Corp.’s Wilmington shipyard -- splashed sideways into ...

BACKGROUND: It's now a twisted hulk of concrete and rebar poking out of the bay at Sunset Beach at the end of Sunset Boulevard in Cape May Point. But the Atlantus is a wonderful example of American ...

Enormous waves that pummeled the Northern California coast during the storms of January 2017 brought a dramatic end to a noble experiment in maritime construction that began during World War I. At ...

To conserve steel during World War I, Mobile shipbuilders turned to an unlikely building material: concrete. On June 28, 1919, the first concrete-hulled ship built in Mobile, the USS Selma, was ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune will mark its 150th anniversary in 2018 by presenting a significant front page from the archives each day for the coming 365 days. TANKERS BUILT AT THIS PORT WILL BE ...