A CRANE LIKE A CRANE.
The colossal crane at Woolwich has “been upwards of four years in process of erection. To give some idea of this stupendous piece of mechanism for lifting great weights, it may be stated that 1800 tons of iron and 3 tons of brass have been used in its construction, and that when it is completed, as it soon will be, it will lift three or four hundred-ton guns at once. But a less powerful crane would do that work in detail. The giant among cranes is calculated to raise 1200 tons, and has been formed for meeting the probable necessity of dealing with specimens of ordinance so enormous as to defy all the means at present available for mounting them on their carriages. The height of the crane is 70 feet and it can sweep round, making a circumference of 430 feet, and one man it is said can control it at the central cylinder. The motive power is of course steam, and readers may fancy what a 200 or even a 300-ton gun would be like swinging in the air at any height under 70 feet, held in the grasp of this monster machine, which if placed at the side of a harbor, could lift large vessels clean out of the water,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2460, 5 February 1881, Page 3
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218A CRANE LIKE A CRANE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2460, 5 February 1881, Page 3
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