Concrete Shipbuilding Company,
Palestine.

Concrete Ship Built in Palestine
The second concrete fishing vessel built in Palestine by the Concrete Shipbuilding Company was launched at Tel-Aviv recently, states the jewish Chronicle.
This vessel is a 90-ton trawler, about 531 ft. in length, and is named Jonah Krentocrete No. 2.
The war-time programme of the company includes, the launching of a fleet of some 25 trawlers to make the country self -sufficient in regard to fish, and the mass-production of concrete barges, tankers, launches, and cargo vessels.
According to the founder of the company, Mr. Joseph Krenter, a refugee shipbuilder from Spalato, Yugoslavia, there are, no real obstacles to the launching of 2,000 tons of concrete shipping a week.
Apart from a small quantity of iron piping, all the materials used could be of local origin.
According to the paper, Mr. Krenter and his partner perfected a formula for a concrete mixture that was seven times as watertight as ordinary concrete in Serbia in 1938.
Learning of Mr. Krenter's success, the Germans seized French shares of the Split shipyard when they entered Paris and lost no time ill sending agents for documents of plans to concrete ship production.
But with the aid of the British authorities in Yugoslavia, Mr. Krenter escaped when the Nazis invaded the country, taking with him blue-prints and part of his resources.
From Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, October 15, 1942, page 382

updated 2001.03.31.