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SS Peralta
Concrete ship
Concrete ship
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| section1 | {{Infobox ship/image |
| section2 | {{Infobox ship/career |
| name | *Peralta* |
| builder | San Francisco Shipbuilding Company |
| launched | February 1921 |
| reclassified | *Sardine cannery in 1924 |
| fate | Floating breakwater, potential reef |
| section3 | {{Infobox ship/characteristics |
| tonnage | * |
| length | 420 ft |
| beam | 54 ft |
| draught | 35 ft |
| propulsion | *T.3-cyl. |
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Breakwater in 1958
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359 nhp
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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
- Glenday, Craig. (2013). "Guinness Book of World Records 2014".
- "YOGN-82".
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