Don't know if anyone has mentioned this website before but I was surfing about and came across it. Pretty magnificent Shipyard crane. Check out the model under the photo section.
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Posted: Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 12:40 AM UTC
Halfyank
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Posted: Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 08:59 PM UTC
I've never seen that one, but there was a really huge crane being used in Long Beach, California when I was growing up. The story my Dad told me about it was that it was the world's largest floating crane, and was "war booty" taken from Germany after WWII. Going off memory I believe Dad said there were two of them, one given to the Soviets, but that one was lost at sea when being taken to Russia. The thing was absolutely gigantic.