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The second of twelve concrete freighters built for the Emergency Fleet Corporation at the end of the First World War, the USS Atlantus was obsolete right from her launch. Wrecked in a storm off Cape May, NJ in 1926, I wanted to kayak out to her and explore what remains before it settles beneath the waves forever.