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The S.S. Atlantus was an experimental concrete ship, one of twelve built during World War 1. It proved impractical after several Trans-Atlantic trips because of its weight. In 1926, Colonel Jesse Rosenfeld purchased the Atlantus to serve as a ferry dock in Cape May, New Jersey, for a proposed ferry between Cape May and Cape Henlopen, DE. On June 8th, a storm struck, the ship broke free of its moorings, and it ran aground 150 feet off the coast of Sunset Beach. Several attempts to free the ship failed.
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