Ferro-Concrete Vessels built at Hempsted

Tue 29 Dec · Venue to be confirmed

Hosted by Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology

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Tuesday 29 December 2026 – By Zoom – 7.30pm Ferro-Concrete Vessels built at Hempsted Ferro-concrete ships were developed during World War I as an emergency solution to critical steel shortages for shipbuilding. One of the companies to produce these vessels was based at Hempsted and in this talk Paul Barnett will discuss the company and the six ships known to have been produced in Gloucester

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