9. Ayrfield Supervision
Where: Australia’s Sydney
Year: 1911
Expense: $68.03 million
SS Corriman, a 1.14-ton steel warship built in the UK in 1911, was the ancestor of SS Ayrfield. After being converted into a steam collier, the warship SS Corriman served as a supply ship for American forces stationed in the Pacific. The SS Corriman was renamed SS Ayrfrield following the end of World War II. Its builders had no idea that it would transform from a warship to a floating forest.
Australia’s SS Ayrfield, Sydney ©Shutterstock/Duncan Struthers
Australia transfers the ships it no longer needs to Homebush Bay, where SS Ayrfield was sent in 1972. It floated there for decades, during which time nature took over. Today, luxuriant mangrove trees resemble a true forest growing there.
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