Skip to content
Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/1921-ships

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

SS Peralta

Concrete ship


Concrete ship

FieldValue
section1{{Infobox ship/image
section2{{Infobox ship/career
name*Peralta*
builderSan Francisco Shipbuilding Company
launchedFebruary 1921
reclassified*Sardine cannery in 1924
fateFloating breakwater, potential reef
section3{{Infobox ship/characteristics
tonnage*
length420 ft
beam54 ft
draught35 ft
propulsion*T.3-cyl.
  • Breakwater in 1958

  • 359 nhp

  • Single screw

'*SS *Peralta''''' is a concrete floating breakwater in Powell River in British Columbia. She was built as a concrete oil tanker 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 measured of . Her sister ship is . She was acquired in 1924 and converted into a sardine cannery in Alaska. After spending 24 years in this role the ship was moored off Antioch, California. 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 still afloat.

With the downsizing of operations at the pulp mill in late 2000, it was proposed to sink 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

References

  1. Glenday, Craig. (2013). "Guinness Book of World Records 2014".
  2. "YOGN-82".
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about SS Peralta — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report