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Description Two U.S. Navy yard workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California (USA) in front of the former German Navy crane called "Herman the German" (YD-171). The floating crane had 5,000 tons displacement, was 62.4 m long and had a beam of 33,0 m. Its mximum height was 115 m, the draft was 3 m, its lifting capacity was 350 tons. The crane had a forward speed of 5.8 kn and a backward speed of 4.6 kn. The crane was transported from Germany to the U.S. in 1946 and was assigned the hull number YD-171. It was finally struck from the Naval Register, 19 September 1994. In the U.S. Navy it was coloquially known as "Herman the German". It was sold to Panama in 1994 and entered service in 1999. The crane, now named "Titan" is used for the heavy lifting required to maintain the doors of the locks of the Panama Canal.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine October 1957, p. 5.
Author USN
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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