Concrete Ship - Northern Spire Bridge - Sunderland
The Concrete Ship with Northern Spire Bridge in background reflecting on the River Wear Print, Sunderland.
Known as 'the Cretehawser', the ship itself was constructed by the Wear Concrete Building Company Ltd on the March 15, 1919. It came in a time in which the Government ordered 154 concrete vessels due to problems with provisions due to World War I.
The Cretehawser itself floated and towed large concrete barges filled with iron ore from Spain to Britain until 1935 - when it was took out of action and subsequently used as an emergency breakwater to prevent the Wear from bursting its banks.
However, there is some truth to the stories stating that the Cretehawser itself was bombed during World War II. In 1942, the vessel was holed in an Axis air raid, and subsequently towed up the river, where she still sits to this day.
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