An amazing 100-year-old Tees Valley concrete barge found in a fjord

CONCRETE boats were all the rage when other materials were in short supply in the First World War. Memories 585 told how SS Cretehawser was one of four concrete tugs made in Sunderland in 1919 and it still lies, as a breakwater, in the Wear at South Hylton. We also found the wreck of MV Creteblock lying beneath the Whitby Abbey cliffs. It too was a 1919 concrete tug, only it was made in West Sussex and came to the Tees to work at Smith’s Dock.

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