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D161999-23
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- 1972-06 (Creation)
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This 40-ton Starcon looks as though it is being readied for its journey to the Port of Seattle during the summer of 1972. Manufactured by Tacoma's Star Iron & Steel (SIS), the crane was to be installed by Star Iron & Steel at the Port of Seattle's new terminal 25. This seems to be one of the three 40-ton Starcon mobile container-handling cranes commissioned by the Port of Seattle in a $839,820 contract announced in November of 1971. These diesel-electric cranes were shipped by barge to Seattle after building, erection and testing by Star Iron & Steel. The company had built more than $5,000,000 worth of heavy duty container cranes and mobile gantry cranes in the last three years for the Port of Seattle. Photograph ordered by Star Iron & Steel Co. (TNT 11-5-71, p. 15- article on new cranes; TNT 6-4-72, C-21 - article)
Hoisting machinery; Star Iron & Steel Co. (Tacoma); Port of Seattle (Seattle); Barges;