Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Dockyard structures and equipment. Vehicles, Cranes, and buildings.

Moderators: BB62vet, MartinJQuinn, Timmy C, Gernot, Olaf Held, Dan K, HMAS, ModelMonkey

Post Reply
User avatar
Devin
Posts: 2498
Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:46 am
Location: Hoboken, NJ
Contact:

Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Post by Devin »

I'm looking for some information on the crane in this famous USS Yorktown photo. After some digging, I haven't been able to find anything on the type of crane, it's size, etc. Drawings or plans would be amazing, but if I could just get some dimensions, that'd be close enough for my digital modeling needs. There's also a massive crane on the other side of Yorktown, and data on that would be also welcome, but it's not as critical.

Does anyone have any leads on where to look? Thanks.
Attachments
200604-N-EL904-1000.JPG
We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley
Dan K
Posts: 9044
Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Location: New York City

Re: Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Post by Dan K »

Dan K
Posts: 9044
Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Location: New York City

Re: Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Post by Dan K »

User avatar
Devin
Posts: 2498
Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:46 am
Location: Hoboken, NJ
Contact:

Re: Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Post by Devin »

Thanks, Dan. I'll check those out. When I started researching Dry Dock 1 and working on the CAD a few years ago, I could've swore I had more resources than I'm able to find now. Computer ate 'em, I guess.
We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley
User avatar
Iceman 29
Posts: 1945
Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2020 4:35 pm
Location: Bretagne, France

Re: Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Post by Iceman 29 »

May be this one to the right:

USS Nevada in dry dock at Pearl Harbor, c. 1935 (Naval History and Heritage Command/National Archives NH 50,102)

Image

Image
Pascal

�Battleship Bretagne 3D: https://vu.fr/FvCY
�SS Delphine 3D: https://vu.fr/NeuO
�SS Nomadic 3D: https://vu.fr/tAyL
�USS Nokomis 3D: https://vu.fr/kntC
�USS Pamanset 3D: https://vu.fr/jXGQ
Dan K
Posts: 9044
Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:56 am
Location: New York City

Re: Pearl Harbor Dry Dock 1 Crane

Post by Dan K »

Articles about the crane operator on 12/7 (George Walters) state that this is was a 50 ton portal crane.
Post Reply

Return to “Dock and Harbor Equipment”