Weeks 533
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Weeks 533 is a 500-short-ton (454 t) capacity Clyde Iron Works model 52 barge-mounted crane which is the largest revolving floating crane on the East Coast of the United States. It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
The Weeks 533 crane vessel passes Newport, Jersey City
Murphy Pacific's Marine Boss at work on the San Diego–Coronado Bridge (c.1968)
Marine Boss moving SEALAB III near San Clemente Island (Dec 1968)
Weeks 533 lifts the Enterprise onto USS Intrepid (2012)
Weeks Marine
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Weeks Marine is a marine construction and dredging contractor based in Cranford, NJ. It was founded by Francis Weeks and his son Richard B. Weeks in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.
Looking north from Pier 84 as Weeks 533 lets down Enterprise on afterdeck of Intrepid on a partly cloudy afternoon, 6 June 2012.