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Marker detail: self-propelled steam cranes
Photographer: Photos courtesy of the Port Jefferson Village Archive
Taken: June 8, 2017
Caption: Marker detail: self-propelled steam cranes
Additional Description: A steam crane prepares to enter Bayles Shipyard, Inc., April 1918. Two self-propelled cranes traveled on the network of rails at the site and were used in constructing steel vessels for our nation's merchant marine.

Panorama of the Bayles Shipyard, April 1920. Note the steam crane that traveled on the network of rails at the site.
Submitted: March 8, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p418515
File Size: 1.965 Megabytes

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