There's another wrecked concrete ship on a California beach, about seven and a half hours drive north in Monterey Bay. In the Seacliff State Beach you'll find the wreckage of the S.S. Palo Alto.
Steve, You got balls boarding that wreck. I never heard of this wreck right off the Coronado Beach! 🤔😀👍 Five Star rating for the history lesson Steve. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I grew up in a Navy family; Dad transferred to San Diego in 1963, and that's where we lived for thirty years. I live in the Northwest now and miss those San Diego days. Your adventures in the Southwest, and especially San Diego County, bring a smile to my face and long forgotten memories to mind, once again. Thank you! PS: Your stories, writing and delivery remind me of the late Bob Dale. You both know how to tell a great story. (If you've never heard him talk about "Booze Balls", it's worth a listen)
Really interesting story! The bad old days of gambling, drinking, and other pursuits were not limited to saloons, etc. Your patience has been rewarded. Thanks for sharing this fun adventure.
I remember years ago walking that beach and people saying, "there's a ship wreck out there somewhere. It was covered in sand and not visible. We're down in SD quite often and visit the Del. We should go for a walk and see it we can see some of it now. Thanks for the adventure vids. Love them all.
Great Video, I saw a partial exposure of this when I was stationed at North Island in the 1980s. BTW I'm the guy who recognized you last week at Dickeys. The Hat and Beard gave you away lol. Love the Videos, keep it up.
First time I've heard them described as being "four masked men". Our grand uncle was reported to have been the driver of the get-away-boat. He was sentenced to a total of ten years at McNeil Island in the State of Washington. Eight years for the robbery, an additional two for smuggling alcohol.
Amazing! In 82-85 I was in the Navy stationed right there. Three years of swimming and running up and down the beach in front of the Cays almost every day and not once did I see that wreck!!!
As a Native San Diegan, I kind of remember hearing about this ship, but I've never seen it. Thank you for waiting for the perfect timing to share images of it with us all!
When I attended the University of Minnesota to get my degree in Civil Engineering, we had an annual "Concrete Canoe" competition. So yeah, it is possible to make a ship from concrete.
Amazing that it resurfaces from time to time. I imagine that anyone who would want to search for silver in the hull would have tons of sand to get out of the way: doesn't seem like worthwhile prospecting. Thanks for this tour of a "local" (I'm in Northern California, but do visit San Diego occasionally) historical landmark.
Fascinating video! The S.S. Monte Carlo is now more visible than the iconic S.S. Atlantus, sinking beneath the waves at Sunset Beach, Cape May Point, New Jersey.
My sister's father-in-law built concrete trawlers (officially known as ferro-cement) for over 40 years. Most were between 60 and 120 feet. He never lost one due to accident. Even after all these years, it is still an efficient and cost effective way to build mid sized boats/ships. Something to think about, during ww2, the nazis actually built gliders and V1 bombs with cement wings.
You point to weight as the reason for no more concrete ships. But it is actually flexibility. I see fero cement boats often, looking good after decades of use. But they are small enough that they don't need to flex. Thanks for your video.
In the early days of iron shipbuilding, there was doubt that iron (and eventually, steel) would be a good shipbuilding material, either. There were ships called "composites" - with the frame and above the waterline parts made of iron, but the bottom made of oak - because insurance companies would give the ship a lower price. The issue with concrete was the same with wood - the amount of internal bracing/structure to support the vessel became more inefficient as ship length increased - ship tonnage scaled up while cargo tonnage scaled down.
Re: Concrete ships. The Marine Corps' amphibious assault on Iwo Jima involved several concrete Liberty ships..... These were towed across the Pacific and planned for use as an artificial harbor much like Mulberry's were in the 6 June 1944 Normandy landing. Iwo Jima's concrete ships are still visible at what is known today as the "shipwreck cluster", but what was called "Purple Beach" in the Marine Corps' operation order.
So interesting, thanks. Used to go to San Diego and Coronado all the time. No big condos on the beach back then. Coronado was a sleepy little town reached by the ferry boat!!
i was born in san diego and we went to the beach all the time, i remember going to coronado and we would park on the street and climb over the rocks to get on the beach the neat old houses are all gone, just big ugly hotels lots of traffic, we would go over on the ferry and go home on the silver strand . san diego was a very special place in the 1950S.
That was interesting as always. I knew there was a submerged boat 🛥 just barely under water on a beach but I thought it was a naval vessel. Thanks for the very thorough history of the ship. My best friend lived in San Diego and loved to drive around the area and into the mountains exploring in his car. I’m sure he knew about this. You could walk right out there, it’s so close. Thanks for the up close and personal look at the remains. 👍☮️🌞❤️
Concrete ships are such an unusual, short blip in history and I find them fascinating. It's very cool that you were able to take advantage of the weather and share this with us - thank you! There's another concrete ship wrecked on the coast of New Jersey, the Atlantus. Part-Time Explorer did a video about it that I'd definitely recommend. I wonder how many more are still out there?
Don't forget Galveston's SS Selma....SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel.
I literally live in Barrio Logan right on the other side of the bridge. Fascinating. I shared this with my daughter. I was like “hell yeah recent and local event!”
Thanks Steve, enjoyed this video! I was stationed at NAB Coronado back in 1977 for SWO school and never heard of this wreck. Glad you were able to visit it! Safe travels!
All the years I’ve been going down to that beach I never knew that shipwreck existed will differently check it out next time I’m down there. Thanks for the cool video and history lesson.
It is speculated that there may be $150,000 worth of silver dollar coins remaining in the wreckage. According to the late lifetime resident of Coronado, Edward "Bud" Bernhard[6] who retrieved hundreds of dollars from the shipwreck as a child: "I’m convinced there is $100,000 in gold and silver coins deep in that wreck"
i am reminded of the "Mulberries" the prefab concrete harbor pieces which were also floatable, made in England and sailed to Normandy as part of the Invasion. Cool video, by the way, thanks!
Hey Captain Steve - great story! Don’t know how I missed this last year. I was just near that two weeks ago - I took the ferry over and had Gyros at that great little cafe. So awesome you owned that beast of a shipwreck! I’ve heard stories about that gambling ship but not that it sunk off Coronado lol. 🏴☠️
I must say again you are definitely speaking my language there's nothing more exciting than adventure and learning some new history about our state .... In the history that surrounds us
Ahh! Pt. Loma in the background. Coronado under foot. I served four years at the Subase there and went to Navy Dive School there twice. Great memories.
I live in North County so it's cool seeing your vids about interesting things in the surrounding areas that i never knew about! Thanks Steve ur amazing 👏
I never knew its history. When I was a kid & lived in Coronado in the 1960s & early 1970s that ship was frequently exposed. We'd frequently crawl around it. I live elsewhere in San Diego now & rarely get there anymore, but the last times I've been down there I haven't seen it & wondered if it had disappeared.
We probably knew each other. Born in Coronado in '55, graduated from CHS in '73. with the folks passing, and us kids living elsewhere, we just sold our family home on Tenth Street. Even though I was a total beach kid, I never ventured onto the Monte Carlo. Take care, S. Lewis
@@mariacaracolita9049 My sister graduated from Coronado HS in 1973. Perhaps you knew her. She was the only one of us kids actually born in the Coronado hospital. The rest of us were born at Mercy Hospital like so many other people in the San Diego area. At one time most of all my relatives lived in Coronado. Now no one does. Our family moved to south San Diego in 1973 & still live there.
Coronado is not an island. It's a community located at the north end of a peninsula called the Silver Strand that runs 7 miles north from Imperial Beach at the Mexican border. There is a military base on the extreme north end of the peninsula called Naval Air Station North Island, where I was attached to a Navy squadron in the early 1980s. North Island at one time was an island called North Coronado Island, but it became connected to the Strand during World War II when the harbor was dredged for large ships and the area between North Coronado Island and South Coronado, now just Coronado, was filled in. NAS North Island was commissioned as a naval air station in 1917 and now serves as a base for several aircraft carriers and numerous naval helicopter squadrons. Some unrelated trivia: During the 1980s, popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher lived in one of the condominium buildings seen next to the beach in this video.
Like you, I have been waiting to make a video of this place, too. I remember first learning about the shipwreck on the KUSI news several years ago. It seems that January is about the only month it’s visible due to the combination of tides and things like that. Glad you got to see it this time around. Maybe I’ll catch it next year. Cool video!
This is the sort of ship which turns up in Raymond Chandler's story "Farewell My Lovely" - and Chandler didn't live that far away! I felt so sorry for Moose Malloy - he didn't deserve Velma.
We would go to the Silver Strand when I was young. Dad, who was in the Navy, would talk about this ship, but I never saw it. Thank you for your research and the memory. Your videos are great and well researched.
Awesome video, love your channel. There’s another concrete ship just off Aptos CA at Seacliff State Beach near Santa Cruz, that one is the SS Palo Alto. It didn’t fair very well in our recent storms.
my dad was working for the comnavsurfpac in the navy on Coronado back in the early 90s. I've been there multiple times. even seen the navy seals do a war reenacted on a 4th of july.
Hey Steve - Love you content! Have your ever done a Coronado "Island" specific video? Would love to see a whole video on the History of The Del, Orange Street, Tent City, Spreckels and anything else you can show.
Thanks for another very unusual thing to see in the Southwest...and once again making me feel a bit ignorant about a place I thought I knew well. Aside from attending high school in Pacific Beach I was also stationed at NAS North Island in the late 1970s and use to run down that beach from the back gate of the base and yet I had never heard of this ship. I especially appreciate your research and was fascinated to learn about this and other ships during Prohibition as I was well-aware of how the US Prohibition helped speed up development on the Mexican side of the border to cater to "Sin Tourism," as it's called. While I knew of the gambling casinos that sprung up in Mexico, including on an island off the coast of Baja, I'd never heard about these "gambling ships" off our own coast and really appreciate you making me aware of them. By the way, concrete sail boats have been around for a long time...although I'd never buy one.
I wrecked a rubber raft (Inflatable Boat, Small-IBS) on that ship. Lost a PRC-25 radio in the incident, nearly lost my M-16 and my life. Navy training,1979.
A small part of my childhood was walking out on the SS Palo Alto. The other cement ship moored forever off the coast of Aptos in Northern California. Unlike the Monte Carlo the Palo Alto was a fishing pier until 2000 when the hull became too dangerous and chain link was erected between the wooden pier and the vessel. Then in 2018 a storm sent the wooden pier tumbling like bowling pins (there’s incredible video footage of this on youtube) Now the Palo Alto isn’t in much better shape than the Monte Carlo. Jumbled blocks of concrete taking a merciless beating from the surf. Interestingly it, too, was a dance hall in the 20’s. Called the Rainbow Room. Wonder if the same consortium bought both surplus vessels? The Palo Alto was built by the same company and for the same purpose. Transportation of oil in WW1. Unlike the Monte Carlo the Palo Alto never made it into actual service. Had WW1 gone on another 6-12 months it would have.
!OUTSTANDING! Excellent video, Mr. Adventures! This is one of the most interesting Sandy Ego videos on RUclips. Thank you for taking the time necessary to produce a valuable documentary. Concrete yachts were available for sale by a boat builder located between the sports arena and Mission Bay well into the 1970's -- they float fine.
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There's another wrecked concrete ship on a California beach, about seven and a half hours drive north in Monterey Bay. In the Seacliff State Beach you'll find the wreckage of the S.S. Palo Alto.
Born here in Ca and NEVER knew this. Keep hunting these stories.
Really enjoyed this video. My great uncle was one of the pirates that robbed the ship and went to jail. This is a fun addition to our family history.
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Well shiver me timbers.
Steve, You got balls boarding that wreck. I never heard of this wreck right off the Coronado Beach! 🤔😀👍 Five Star rating for the history lesson Steve. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Stationed there on the Kitty Hawk in 82 - 85. Spent many a day on that beach. Never knew about that ship though. Southern Cal in the 80's was a blast!
I grew up in a Navy family; Dad transferred to San Diego in 1963, and that's where we lived for thirty years. I live in the Northwest now and miss those San Diego days. Your adventures in the Southwest, and especially San Diego County, bring a smile to my face and long forgotten memories to mind, once again. Thank you!
PS: Your stories, writing and delivery remind me of the late Bob Dale. You both know how to tell a great story. (If you've never heard him talk about "Booze Balls", it's worth a listen)
I remember Bob Dale on the news from when I was a kid, I'll have to look up the booze balls story.
I miss Bob Dale. His narratives of old and interesting San Diego spots were so interesting and nice.
Is this SS fpr like SchutzStaffel, or what?
Reminds me of California's Gold, with Huell Houser!
Literally what RUclips was developed for. Your channel is amazing. Thank you.
Really interesting story! The bad old days of gambling, drinking, and other pursuits were not limited to saloons, etc. Your patience has been rewarded. Thanks for sharing this fun adventure.
Thanks for watching!
I remember years ago walking that beach and people saying, "there's a ship wreck out there somewhere. It was covered in sand and not visible. We're down in SD quite often and visit the Del. We should go for a walk and see it we can see some of it now. Thanks for the adventure vids. Love them all.
Great Video, I saw a partial exposure of this when I was stationed at North Island in the 1980s.
BTW I'm the guy who recognized you last week at Dickeys. The Hat and Beard gave you away lol.
Love the Videos, keep it up.
It was really nice meeting you.
First time I've heard them described as being "four masked men". Our grand uncle was reported to have been the driver of the get-away-boat. He was sentenced to a total of ten years at McNeil Island in the State of Washington. Eight years for the robbery, an additional two for smuggling alcohol.
I was stationed a few hundred yards south of this wreck and had no idea it was there. Thx for posting this video.
Thanks for watching!
Oh the women and gambling you missed
Amazing! In 82-85 I was in the Navy stationed right there. Three years of swimming and running up and down the beach in front of the Cays almost every day and not once did I see that wreck!!!
Thanks for taking us along today to the Monte Carlo, I also enjoyed the backdrop of the hotel Del Coronado and Point Loma.
As a Native San Diegan, I kind of remember hearing about this ship, but I've never seen it. Thank you for waiting for the perfect timing to share images of it with us all!
When I attended the University of Minnesota to get my degree in Civil Engineering, we had an annual "Concrete Canoe" competition. So yeah, it is possible to make a ship from concrete.
Amazing that it resurfaces from time to time. I imagine that anyone who would want to search for silver in the hull would have tons of sand to get out of the way: doesn't seem like worthwhile prospecting. Thanks for this tour of a "local" (I'm in Northern California, but do visit San Diego occasionally) historical landmark.
Fascinating video! The S.S. Monte Carlo is now more visible than the iconic S.S. Atlantus, sinking beneath the waves at Sunset Beach, Cape May Point, New Jersey.
This is so cool to see and your narration of the history of what you see is great. I always look forward to Wednesday to see what you show next.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for your Sidetracks. You have opened up several destinations for us - many we have undertaken. That's why we left you some "Thanks" money!
So many hidden secrets in San Diego, and I love finding out about them. Thanks for keeping lesser known history alive
You're welcome. I love my home town and will always try to throw in some videos on it. Have a couple more planned coming up.
My sister's father-in-law built concrete trawlers (officially known as ferro-cement) for over 40 years. Most were between 60 and 120 feet. He never lost one due to accident. Even after all these years, it is still an efficient and cost effective way to build mid sized boats/ships. Something to think about, during ww2, the nazis actually built gliders and V1 bombs with cement wings.
Good work Sidetrack! Ive gotten to dive on a vessel off Catalina that has a story. Neat stuff. Nice background music...
You point to weight as the reason for no more concrete ships. But it is actually flexibility. I see fero cement boats often, looking good after decades of use. But they are small enough that they don't need to flex. Thanks for your video.
In the early days of iron shipbuilding, there was doubt that iron (and eventually, steel) would be a good shipbuilding material, either. There were ships called "composites" - with the frame and above the waterline parts made of iron, but the bottom made of oak - because insurance companies would give the ship a lower price.
The issue with concrete was the same with wood - the amount of internal bracing/structure to support the vessel became more inefficient as ship length increased - ship tonnage scaled up while cargo tonnage scaled down.
What a great story!! Thanks so much for telling me about this!! Incredible you were able to time your visit to see it!!
Re: Concrete ships.
The Marine Corps' amphibious assault on Iwo Jima involved several concrete Liberty ships..... These were towed across the Pacific and planned for use as an artificial harbor much like Mulberry's were in the 6 June 1944 Normandy landing. Iwo Jima's concrete ships are still visible at what is known today as the "shipwreck cluster", but what was called "Purple Beach" in the Marine Corps' operation order.
Wow this is Awesome Steve. Thank you RUclips algorithm for bringing this video to my feed. Great job Steve !!
So interesting, thanks. Used to go to San Diego and Coronado all the time. No big condos on the beach back then. Coronado was a sleepy little town reached by the ferry boat!!
i was born in san diego and we went to the beach all the time, i remember going to coronado and we would park on the street and climb over the rocks to get on the beach the neat old houses are all gone, just big ugly hotels lots of traffic, we would go over on the ferry and go home on the silver strand . san diego was a very special place in the 1950S.
Great work. Lived in PB and been to going to Coronado for years. Never knew about this.
I really enjoy your presentations of Southern California and its history. There's so much to see right in our own backyard.
Crazy mad story, nice1. So strange to see you not in a desert patch.
Really like how well researched your videos are. Very informative and always interesting. Best to you and your family on the loss of grandma.
Thank you very much!
That was interesting as always. I knew there was a submerged boat 🛥 just barely under water on a beach but I thought it was a naval vessel. Thanks for the very thorough history of the ship. My best friend lived in San Diego and loved to drive around the area and into the mountains exploring in his car. I’m sure he knew about this. You could walk right out there, it’s so close. Thanks for the up close and personal look at the remains. 👍☮️🌞❤️
I've been to that beach 100 times and never been able to see the wreck. Thanks Steve.
I've been waiting patiently for it to be visible again.
@@SidetrackAdventures You provide a service to the public.
Living the dream.
Concrete ships are such an unusual, short blip in history and I find them fascinating. It's very cool that you were able to take advantage of the weather and share this with us - thank you!
There's another concrete ship wrecked on the coast of New Jersey, the Atlantus. Part-Time Explorer did a video about it that I'd definitely recommend. I wonder how many more are still out there?
The one in New Jersey is a sister ship of this one too.
@@SidetrackAdventures EVEN BETTER.
Don't forget Galveston's SS Selma....SS Selma was an oil tanker built in 1919 by F.F. Ley and Company, Mobile, Alabama. President Woodrow Wilson approved the construction of 24 concrete vessels of which only 12 were actually completed. SS Selma is the only permanent, and prominent, wreck along the Houston Ship Channel.
Such a cool story I didn’t know any of this… thanks for teaching me something new.
I literally live in Barrio Logan right on the other side of the bridge. Fascinating. I shared this with my daughter. I was like “hell yeah recent and local event!”
Another good show and informative....Thanks !
Thanks Steve, enjoyed this video! I was stationed at NAB Coronado back in 1977 for SWO school and never heard of this wreck. Glad you were able to visit it! Safe travels!
Thanks for watching. It only shows up about once a decade or so making it pretty easy to miss.
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Used to live in Solana Beach !
Always a joy to watch your vidz.
Cheers from snowy Detroit !
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Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the detailed history lesson brother...interesting story.
I gotta go see this next time i'm in Coronado. Ive heard the stories but never actually seen any of this.
All the years I’ve been going down to that beach I never knew that shipwreck existed will differently check it out next time I’m down there. Thanks for the cool video and history lesson.
Thanks. If you are in the area you might be able to see it. The super low tides are gone but it probably hasn't been reburied yet.
Another great adventure. Thanks Steve.
my grandparents live here and i visit every year and ive never heard about his wreck!
It only comes out when the conditions are right. On average about every seven years or so, but you pretty much need a storm and low tide to line up.
@@SidetrackAdventures thank you
It is speculated that there may be $150,000 worth of silver dollar coins remaining in the wreckage. According to the late lifetime resident of Coronado, Edward "Bud" Bernhard[6] who retrieved hundreds of dollars from the shipwreck as a child: "I’m convinced there is $100,000 in gold and silver coins deep in that wreck"
Solid little tour, thank you.
THANK YOU STEVE,VERY COOL STORY AGAIN..SAFE TRAVELS..
Thanks, you too!
your videos are awesome!! thanks! i cant wait to catch this at the next low tide
Interesting video, good job and thanks. 🤙🏻
i am reminded of the "Mulberries" the prefab concrete harbor pieces which were also floatable, made in England and sailed to Normandy as part of the Invasion. Cool video, by the way, thanks!
Thank you Steve! I’ve seen this wreck, but realizing that it was concrete, it never dawned on me that it was a ship. Great bit of history
THANK YOU FOR SHARING SOME HISTORY,
7:21 One of them holes looks like it was almost certainly cut into the ship, as you can see rebar sticking out from the edges
I wouldn't be surprised if someone cut into it looking for treasure at some point in the last 80 years.
Hey Captain Steve - great story! Don’t know how I missed this last year. I was just near that two weeks ago - I took the ferry over and had Gyros at that great little cafe. So awesome you owned that beast of a shipwreck! I’ve heard stories about that gambling ship but not that it sunk off Coronado lol. 🏴☠️
I must say again you are definitely speaking my language there's nothing more exciting than adventure and learning some new history about our state .... In the history that surrounds us
Thanks, I appreciate that.
So interesting! Thank you!
All of your videos are really good, Steve, but this one was one of your best! I especially enjoyed the video from your drone. Thank you!
Ahh! Pt. Loma in the background. Coronado under foot. I served four years at the Subase there and went to Navy Dive School there twice. Great memories.
Great informative show! Thank You!
Sweet Sweet video 📹 😍 love it!
I REALLY enjoy your videos! Thank you!!
I live in North County so it's cool seeing your vids about interesting things in the surrounding areas that i never knew about! Thanks Steve ur amazing 👏
Thank you.
Excellent video Steve. Great history, fun story. Thanks for sharing
No problem. Thank you for stopping by and checking out the video.
@@SidetrackAdventures Always look forward to your explores.
Thanks for the story, really beautiful California beach!
Thanks for sharing, Steve. See you next week for another interesting and informative video. 🧡
I never knew its history. When I was a kid & lived in Coronado in the 1960s & early 1970s that ship was frequently exposed. We'd frequently crawl around it. I live elsewhere in San Diego now & rarely get there anymore, but the last times I've been down there I haven't seen it & wondered if it had disappeared.
We probably knew each other. Born in Coronado in '55, graduated from CHS in '73. with the folks passing, and us kids living elsewhere, we just sold our family home on Tenth Street. Even though I was a total beach kid, I never ventured onto the Monte Carlo. Take care, S. Lewis
@@mariacaracolita9049 My sister graduated from Coronado HS in 1973. Perhaps you knew her. She was the only one of us kids actually born in the Coronado hospital. The rest of us were born at Mercy Hospital like so many other people in the San Diego area. At one time most of all my relatives lived in Coronado. Now no one does. Our family moved to south San Diego in 1973 & still live there.
Always fun and informative to watch Side Track adventures
Thank you for this Awesome Video 👍👍👍
Very well done! I love learning about and sharing San Diego history.
Very cool. Thanks for posting this video.👍👍
Coronado is not an island. It's a community located at the north end of a peninsula called the Silver Strand that runs 7 miles north from Imperial Beach at the Mexican border. There is a military base on the extreme north end of the peninsula called Naval Air Station North Island, where I was attached to a Navy squadron in the early 1980s. North Island at one time was an island called North Coronado Island, but it became connected to the Strand during World War II when the harbor was dredged for large ships and the area between North Coronado Island and South Coronado, now just Coronado, was filled in. NAS North Island was commissioned as a naval air station in 1917 and now serves as a base for several aircraft carriers and numerous naval helicopter squadrons.
Some unrelated trivia: During the 1980s, popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher lived in one of the condominium buildings seen next to the beach in this video.
Great historical video (as usual). Thanks Steve, keep them coming.
Wow
Great story. 👍 Thanks.
Like you, I have been waiting to make a video of this place, too. I remember first learning about the shipwreck on the KUSI news several years ago. It seems that January is about the only month it’s visible due to the combination of tides and things like that. Glad you got to see it this time around. Maybe I’ll catch it next year. Cool video!
Thanks. I've been patiently checking tides at every storm waiting for it haha. Definitely worth checking out next time it appears.
Thanks!
Thank you. I really appreciate this.
This is the sort of ship which turns up in Raymond Chandler's story "Farewell My Lovely" - and Chandler didn't live that far away! I felt so sorry for Moose Malloy - he didn't deserve Velma.
Amazing story and a great history lesson! Thank you Steve!
Glad you enjoyed it
We love you Steve! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Cool video. I’ve always wanted to check it out in person but it’s nice to see recent video footage of it. Thanks for sharing
We would go to the Silver Strand when I was young. Dad, who was in the Navy, would talk about this ship, but I never saw it. Thank you for your research and the memory. Your videos are great and well researched.
Did he just talk about it or visit it? Hmmm
Wow I never knew about this. We used to go to that beach when my daughter was little. Thanks what a great bideot
Monte Carlo SS😎
Rewatching this video 👍🏽
Awesome video, love your channel. There’s another concrete ship just off Aptos CA at Seacliff State Beach near Santa Cruz, that one is the SS Palo Alto. It didn’t fair very well in our recent storms.
In the past we've seen the wreck and wondered, very interesting. Thanks
Nice work, as usual. I had heard of this ship, and seen some old pics, but hadn't seen anyone actually get on board before.
Really cool adventure thank you for taking me along
Very nice beach my friend, have a nice week! 💚✨
That's pretty bad a$$ 😮 I love learning from your channel! So cool u were able to see it! 7 years of not being to visible??!! 🤯
There is a great book on the ships called Noir Afloat by Ernest Marquez. I was surprised at just how many were out there.
my dad was working for the comnavsurfpac in the navy on Coronado back in the early 90s. I've been there multiple times. even seen the navy seals do a war reenacted on a 4th of july.
Hey Steve - Love you content! Have your ever done a Coronado "Island" specific video? Would love to see a whole video on the History of The Del, Orange Street, Tent City, Spreckels and anything else you can show.
I haven't, just this, the hidden words, and the ferry.
Thanks for another very unusual thing to see in the Southwest...and once again making me feel a bit ignorant about a place I thought I knew well. Aside from attending high school in Pacific Beach I was also stationed at NAS North Island in the late 1970s and use to run down that beach from the back gate of the base and yet I had never heard of this ship. I especially appreciate your research and was fascinated to learn about this and other ships during Prohibition as I was well-aware of how the US Prohibition helped speed up development on the Mexican side of the border to cater to "Sin Tourism," as it's called. While I knew of the gambling casinos that sprung up in Mexico, including on an island off the coast of Baja, I'd never heard about these "gambling ships" off our own coast and really appreciate you making me aware of them. By the way, concrete sail boats have been around for a long time...although I'd never buy one.
Cool video!🌟💯 Love the story behind it as well.
I wrecked a rubber raft (Inflatable Boat, Small-IBS) on that ship. Lost a PRC-25 radio in the incident, nearly lost my M-16 and my life. Navy training,1979.
A small part of my childhood was walking out on the SS Palo Alto. The other cement ship moored forever off the coast of Aptos in Northern California. Unlike the Monte Carlo the Palo Alto was a fishing pier until 2000 when the hull became too dangerous and chain link was erected between the wooden pier and the vessel. Then in 2018 a storm sent the wooden pier tumbling like bowling pins (there’s incredible video footage of this on youtube) Now the Palo Alto isn’t in much better shape than the Monte Carlo. Jumbled blocks of concrete taking a merciless beating from the surf. Interestingly it, too, was a dance hall in the 20’s. Called the Rainbow Room. Wonder if the same consortium bought both surplus vessels? The Palo Alto was built by the same company and for the same purpose. Transportation of oil in WW1. Unlike the Monte Carlo the Palo Alto never made it into actual service. Had WW1 gone on another 6-12 months it would have.
I remember hearing about the ship but completely forgot about it. Very cool video!
all ashore that's going ashore - super cool vid.
Cool story I’d never heard. Makes me long for a trip to the ocean! 👍🏼
Just be sure to take your wallet out of your pocket, unlike me!
!OUTSTANDING! Excellent video, Mr. Adventures! This is one of the most interesting Sandy Ego videos on RUclips. Thank you for taking the time necessary to produce a valuable documentary. Concrete yachts were available for sale by a boat builder located between the sports arena and Mission Bay well into the 1970's -- they float fine.
Pretty interesting. I never thought of concrete for boats, but it looks like it was more popular than I knew!
@@SidetrackAdventures They work (for a while), although they don't last! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯