Detail View: McClain (Herbert A.) Photographs: The first lift by the giant German crane at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. This crane is lifting more than 100 tons of barge filled with seawater as a trial. This crane was one of four floating cranes built by German industries to maneuver in water because their land is very swampy and the ground unable to support large cranes with heavy lifts. It was taken as reparation from the German submarine-building facility at Keil, Germany, and was brought across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Long Beach, and reassembled here. (The other cranes, taken by England, France and Russia were all lost at sea). Pictures are poor due to very foggy morning.

Title: 
The first lift by the giant German crane at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. This crane is lifting more than 100 tons of barge filled with seawater as a trial. This crane was one of four floating cranes built by German industries to maneuver in water because their land is very swampy and the ground unable to support large cranes with heavy lifts. It was taken as reparation from the German submarine-building facility at Keil, Germany, and was brought across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Long Beach, and reassembled here. (The other cranes, taken by England, France and Russia were all lost at sea). Pictures are poor due to very foggy morning.
Date: 
1947
Decade: 
1940-1949
Creator: 
McClain, Hubert A.
Type: 
Photograph
Format: 
B/W Negative
Subject: 
Floating Cranes
Subject: 
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Subject: 
United States Navy
Geographic Location: 
Los Angeles County - Long Beach - Terminal Island (Calif.)
Rights: 
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Filename: 
McClain_002-581.tif
Identifier: 
581