900-Ton Gantry Crane (Newport News, Virginia)
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Virginia /
Newport News /
Newport News, Virginia
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/ USA
/ Virginia
/ Newport News
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crane (machine), shipyard
This is the 900 metric ton rated mobile gantry crane spanning the number 12 drydock at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, standing 23 stories above the drydock floor. When it was built, it was the largest crane in the world. It remains the largest crane in the western hemisphere to this day.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°0'3"N 76°26'46"W
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipyard 0.8 km
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard 23 km
- Sparrows Point Terminal (formerly RG Steel/Sparrows Point Steel Mill) 250 km
- Former Site of Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company 332 km
- Philadelphia Navy Yard (former) 341 km
- Lunenburg 1309 km
- The Royal Dockyard : Rosyth 5674 km
- Goole Dockyards 5890 km
- D.C.N. Lorient 5901 km
- Amwaj 6172 km
- CSX Newport News Yard 0.6 km
- East End 3.5 km
- James River Bridge 3.6 km
- Newport News Coal Terminal 4.1 km
- Copeland Industrial Park 4.4 km
- Old Wythe 6.2 km
- Hampton Roads 6.5 km
- Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel 8.2 km
- Isle of Wight County, Virginia 25 km
- Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater 52 km