Weeks 533
 The Weeks 533 crane vessel passes Newport. | |
| History | |
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| Name: |
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| Operator: | Weeks Marine |
| Ordered: | 1965 |
| Builder: | Zidell Explorations (barge) |
| Completed: | 1966 |
| Acquired: | 1988 |
| In service: |
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| Homeport: | New York, NY |
| Identification: | USCG ID 501953 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Floating barge crane |
| Tonnage: | 5392 |
| Length: | 300 feet (91 m) |
| Beam: | 90 feet (27 m) |
| Draught: | 21 feet (6 m) |
| Installed power: | 350kW, 1x Caterpillar 3406 diesel genset |
| Propulsion: | none |
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.[1] It was originally ordered for bridge construction and has since been used in several notable heavy lifts.
History
The Marine Boss floating barge-crane was built for Murphy Pacific Marine. The barge was assembled by Zidell Explorations from scrapped ship steel in Oregon[2] in 1966 and fitted in San Francisco with a heavy 500-ton revolving crane made by Clyde Iron Works[3] to perform the heavy girder and deck-section lifts for construction of the 1967 San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.[4][5] At the time it was the largest barge crane in the western United States.[6]
In the 1970s, Marine Boss was sold to J. Ray McDermott & Co., who had introduced the first 500-ton floating cranes for offshore platform construction in 1965[7] and were operating a similar fleet of barge-cranes under the McDermott Derrick Barge (DB) class.[8] McDermott would later sell it for scrap in 1988 to Weeks Marine in New Jersey,[9] who renamed it the Weeks 533 and refurbished it from 1997-2000. Weeks 533 is considered the flagship of the Weeks fleet.[10]
Capacity
The Clyde Iron Works Model 52-DE crane[11] can lift 500 short tons (454 t) using the main hoist on a 210-foot (64 m) boom at any point in the crane's revolution; capacity rises to 600 short tons (544 t) when using the main hoist oriented astern. Motive power for the main hoist is provided by a Caterpillar 3412 V-12 diesel engine, and electric power for the barge is provided by a Caterpillar 3406 I-6 diesel generator set.
Bridges built
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- Helen Madere Memorial Bridge (replacement span) at Rio Vista (1967)[12]
- San Mateo–Hayward Bridge (1967)[5][13]
- San Diego–Coronado Bridge (1969)[6][13]
- Queensway Twin Bridges (1971),[13][14] near RMS Queen Mary at the Port of Long Beach
- Fremont Bridge (Portland) (1973)[13][15]
Notable heavy lifts
- The capsized MV Stellamare at the Port of Albany–Rensselaer (2003, as a team with Donjon's Chesapeake 1000)[16][17]
- The downed hull of US Airways Flight 1549 (2009) from the Hudson River[1]
- Concorde G-BOAD on Pier 86 (2008)[18] and Enterprise (2012)[19] onto the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum[20][21]
- The old main span of the East 78th Street pedestrian bridge and the replacement span (2011–2012)[10][22][23] over FDR Drive
- The replacement New York–New Jersey Rail Greenville yard transfer bridge (2013) in the wake of Hurricane Sandy[24]
References
- 1 2 DuPont, Dale K. (1 December 2009). "River Rescue". WorkBoat. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ Colton, Tim (27 August 2014). "Zidell Marine, Portland OR". Shipbuilding History. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ Newell, Gordon R (1976). "Maritime Events of 1966". The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, 1966–1976. Seattle: Superior Publishing. ISBN 978-0875642208.
- ↑ Mangus, Alfred R. (30 August 2008). California Orthotropic Bridge Bus Tour (PDF). Orthotropic Bridge Conference. Sacramento, California. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- 1 2 "ADVERTISEMENT: Murphy Pacific Bridge Builders". The Times (San Mateo). 19 October 1967. Retrieved 5 February 2015.(subscription required)
- 1 2 "Fact Sheet: San Diego – Coronado Bridge Seismic Retrofit Project". California Department of Transportation. March 1999. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ "History — 1960s — Expanded Reach". McDermott International. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ↑ Levingston Photography. "McDermott derrick barge no. 17". Portal to Texas History. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ↑ "New life for the Marine Boss". Cranes Today. 2 January 2001. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- 1 2 "On Assignment: Heavy lift, salvage and marine transportation" (PDF). Weeks Marine Journal. January 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ Patel, Jitendra (19 February 2004). ""Weeks 533" General Arrangement and Elevation Chart" (PDF). Weeks Marine. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ↑ "Closure Set For Bridge At Rio Vista". Lodi News-Sentinel. 3 June 1967. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 Mangus, Alfred R. (2004). "Orthotropic Bridges in the U.S.A. Built from 1960-2003". Orthotropic Bridge Conference. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ "Queen's Way Bridge Fast Taking Shape". Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach). 10 August 1969. Retrieved 6 February 2015.(subscription required)
- ↑ Bottenberg, Ray (2007). Bridges of Portland. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. pp. 112–113. ISBN 978-0-7385-4876-0. LCCN 2006935600. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ↑ Foss, Sara (31 December 2003). "Second generator pulled from ship". The Daily Gazette (Schenectady). Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ Aichele, Richard O. (28 February 2007). "Three dead as heavy-lift ship capsizes while loading generator". Professional Mariner. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ Townsend, Matt (20 October 2008). "Concorde lands at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for Nov. 8 re-opening". New York Daily News. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ "The Space Shuttle lands in Manhattan! Enterprise arrives at Intrepid to begin its new life as a New York tourist attraction". Daily Mail. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ Gauvin, Brian (22 August 2012). "World's most famous crane? Shuttle move shines spotlight on Weeks". Professional Mariner. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ Rose, Lisa (6 June 2012). "Space shuttle Enterprise is the latest historic vessel picked up by legendary Jersey City crane". New Jersey Star-Ledger. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "Reconstruction of East 78th Street Bridge" (PDF). Gandhi Engineering. August 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ "Client Favorites: Teresa Kruszewski". American Society of Media Photographers. October 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ "Super Storm Sandy Aftermath: Weeks Marine Clean Up and Relief Efforts" (PDF). Weeks Marine Journal. Winter 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Weeks 533. |
- "Weeks 533". Weeks Marine. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- Pictures of Weeks 533 in dry dock
- Fronda, Jeanne; Leykam, Chris (2007). "A seaside make over" (PDF). Pile Driver 4 (4): 46–51. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- Berliner III, S. (15 March 2014). "Big Cranes Continuation Page 1 – Weeks Marine". SBIII. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- "Weeks 533". Shipspotting. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- Young, John (17 January 2009). "Lifting Flight 1549 from the Hudson". Cryptome. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- "Pilot landed in Hudson to avoid 'catastrophic consequences'". CNN. 18 January 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- Shechmeister, Matthew (13 May 2009). "The Unlikely Events of a Water Landing: New Photos From Flight 1549". Wired. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2015.