British Concrete Ship Videos
#Creteboom - Ballina, Co. Mayo. Ireland
Latest drone video of Creteboom by @myirishdrone - David Beattie
You can also see examples of David's amazing photography in the Photo Gallery
The Launch of Molliette
Vintage newsreel of the launch of Molliette at Faversham Creek. One of two concrete schooners built by James Pollock
#Exercise Jantzen
At 28 minutes into this video is the evidence that confirms why the concrete Petrol Barges, built as part of the Overlord plan, were never used. My aim, to dispel the Urban Myth surrounding the Rainham 16
#RainhammarshesarenotMulberry
Nice drone video of the Petrol Barges at Rainham Marshes. I have chosen this one because it is one of few that does not regurgitate the Urban Myth that these barges went to Normandy or were Mulberry Harbours
#Cretejoist - Fevåg, Rissa, Norway
Very nice video of #Cretejoist Barge still laid up on a beach in Norway
Video credit https://vimeo.com/tommystr
#Cretegaff at Carlingford Marina - January 2021
#Creteland - Diving on the sunken wreck, Greece
Diving on the wreck of #Creteland in Greece. It's a must do for me !
Her name is etched in concrete between 1 min/secs and 1.42
#Cretehawser
Marie Gardiner - Photographer/Writer
produced this interesting video about #cretehawser that I am delighted to share here. Marie has written an excellent book called 'Secret Sunderland' in which #Cretehawser and the other Wear Concrete Shipbuilding Co. Ltd Crete ships appear
#Creteboom
Great drone video by
Owen Gardiner about #Cretehawser with a potted history to go with. This video appears on the North Mayo Tourism site as well. You can follow Owen's work on Instagram @mastergardiner and on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/user/owengardiner17/
#Cretepath
If you follow this link, you can watch for free a newsreel that shows the construction of #Cretepath at British Concrete Construction at Barnstaple. It doesn't actually show the destruction of Cretepath at launch in 1918. She was never registered because she had to be forcibly removed and 'dispersed' in order to enable the launch of Cretepond. I love this 'video'
#Creteboom
#Creteboom taken on Wednesday 6th July 2022 at Ballina.
I was holidaying in Sligo and Ballina is only an hour away, so had to be done. Met a number of very interesting local historians and had a great craic about Creteboom...one of the gentlemen I met was the Grandson of the Harbourmaster at the time Creteboom arrived in 1937 and was even involved in moving her in 1974...
#FCBs at Lymm
Three FCBs that had worked on the Manchester Ship Canal for nearly 40 years were dumped in the late 1970s or early 1980s in this dead arm of the River Mersey off the Manchester Ship Canal
Concrete Ships of the U.S.A
Watch the launch of 'Faith'
'Faith' was the first ocean-going concrete ship built in the U.S.A.
Launched in March 1918, she travelled far and wide until the general doldrums in the shipping industry resulted in her being laid up and later dismantled
'For those in Peril' - S.S. Atlantus
'Atlantus' was the second concrete ship completed in the U.S.A . launched in 1918. This video features a Coastguard exercise showing how they could rescue people from a grounded ship. It's a lot of fun
S.S. Atlantus - Fading from View ?
'Atlantus' was grounded in 1926. In this video, you can see what is left of her, which isn't much !
Colonel Frederick G Hodgson
This concrete River Boat launched 7th February 1921 is the last of her kind. 7 were built by Newport Shipbuilding at Wilmington, North Carolina and today she survives, floating at the Boat Marina and Boat Yard in Fort Walton Beach, Florida