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Item
Title
D158295-3
Date(s)
- 1970-05-25 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
YD-228 floating crane. This is the 100-ton floating crane, YD-228, built for the U.S. Navy by Tacoma's Star Iron & Steel Co. Star Iron & Steel was under contract to build four of these cranes for the government. Each crane would be built on barges 140-feet long with living quarters. Star Iron & Steel had built four similar cranes for the Navy back in 1950 but they had only a 60-ton capacity. Photograph ordered by Star Iron & Steel. (TNT 5-29-68, p. 1- article)
Hoisting machinery; Star Iron & Steel Co. (Tacoma); Steel industry--Tacoma--1970-1980;