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From: cti1!greg@uunet.UU.NET (Greg Fabian)
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Subject: Re: Bobtailed Battlewagons (Cranes to do it) (Rcpt)
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Date: 21 Feb 91 02:57:18 GMT
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From: cti1!greg@uunet.UU.NET (Greg Fabian)

gzw1019@dgsc.dla.mil (Clay P. Fogler) writes:



>From: gzw1019@dgsc.dla.mil (Clay P. Fogler)

>  Its been years since I was there, but the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has the
>crane originally used to put those turrets in place - provided they haven't
>dismantled the thing.  Its on the Elizabeth River, just around the corner from
>the Norfolk Navy Base.  So pulling a turrent off of the Wisconsin BB-64 would
>almost be a house call.

A friend of mine works at Portsmouth, and he says the crane is still in
operation.  It was recertified recently because it was overloaded when
they attempted to remove a turret from a ship without first removing the
bolts to hold the turret in place.  Apparently the crane was pulling the
ship out of the water when it was overloaded.

The crane has another crane sitting on top of it.  When they first built
the crane, they first had to erect a crane to raise construction parts in
order to build it.  After the crane was built, it was decided to leave
the smaller crane in place so it could be used for repairs, etc.

Greg Fabian