Cape May County Must See Landmark - Atlantus

In a nation that prides itself on its victories, remembering failures is not as easy to come by.

Sites like the concrete ship Atlantus, locaed just off Cape May Point, offer a different perspective on history. Suffering from a short supply of steel and iron during World War 1, U.S. officals sought to solve the drought by building ships with concrete moulds. Shortly after a fleet of 14 concrete ships was built by the U.S. governmentthe plan was deemed a failure and the ships were sent to their graves at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

The larger heap of concrete was later moved to its current location. The site has prompted many to raise their cameras to capture the broken hopes of indstrious Americans and the unlikely beauty of the hull peeking out of the choppy waters at sunset.

You can see Atlantus off Sunset Beach in Cape May.