Folder: S.F. Districts-Hunters Point-Shipyards-1940's.
Newscopy: "THE BIGGEST--In photo at right is pictures the world's largest overhead traveling crane. Installation of the 730 foot long crane is under way today at Hunters Point. The structure is 207 feet high and 405 feet wide, and is capable of lifting battleship gun turrets.".
Printed on back: "WORLD'S LARGEST overhead traveling crane, capable of lifting battleship gun turrets and other huge sections weighing as much as a million pounds, is shown being erected by U. S. Steel's American Bridge Company in the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at Hunter's Point, California. Completion of the giant lift will make Uncle Sam fastest on the draw among the nations in the replacing of battleship guns. These large caliber weapons wear down their rifling in a comparatively few rounds. Then the guns and their turrets are exchanged for new ones or for those which have been reconditioned. Swifter repair service for fighting ships also will be made possible by the twin cranes that will operate singly or in tandem atop a bridge type runway 207 feet high. The 730-foot runway spans a pier 405 feet wide, extending 162 1/2 feet over the water on each side. Total of 8,400 tons of steel went into the runway structure and cranes.".
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