Sunset Beach Cape May

by Joan Carroll

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12.000 x 18.000 inches

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Sunset Beach Cape May

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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Sunset Beach in Cape May NJ is the gathering place as the sun goes down. Even in slightly cooler weather, there were lots of people gathered to bid farewell to the day. A big attraction here is the ability to see a sunset over open water (the Delaware Bay), not normally possible on the east coast of the US. Sunset Beach also has the wreck of the Atlantus to provide some interest. Atlantus is a concrete ship. In 1917, the United States joined World War I. Ships were quickly needed to transport soldiers and supplies to Europe. As an alternative to using steel, several ocean-going ships were made of reinforced concrete. They worked, but evidently were too slow to be economical, and were not used for very long after the war ended. In 1926, it was planned that one of these, the Atlantus, be used as part of a Ferry slip. It would be towed to a point near Cape May, and then purposely sunk so that a roadway to the ferry could be built over it. However, there was a mishap, the boat got stuck on a sand bar near its final destination, and there it remains, to this day. Today, due to the wear and ravages of time and the water, it takes a bit of imagination to recognize the Atlantus as a ship.

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December 10th, 2013

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