SS Selma (1919)
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SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel. It lies approximately one mile north of Galveston Island.
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Seawolf Parkway, Galveston
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Latitude | Longitude |
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N 29.3442 ° | E -94.7863 ° |
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S.S. Selma
Seawolf Parkway
77555 Galveston
Texas, United States
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