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Wreck of the SS Atlantus

Lower Township, NJ

The remains of a World War I-era concrete ship sit just offshore from Sunset Beach. The Atlantus broke loose during a storm in 1926 and became permanently stranded, leaving a slowly collapsing piece of experimental shipbuilding visible from shore.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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