Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 140'
Beam 84'
Draft unknown
Lifting Capacity 150 t.
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YD-33 and Dry Dock Crane #1 handling the suction cutter head of the US Army Dredge Sacramento at Mare Island, 4 September1919. Note USS Bath (ID-1997) in the background | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 alongside USS California at her outfitting dock at Mare Island Navy Yard sometime between 7 Feb & 24 Feb 1920. This time frame established by the dry docking dates of the USS Rhode Island; her masts and stacks are just visible to the right of the California superstructure. USAT U.S. Grant and USS Comfort are aft of California. | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 alongside USS California (BB-44) at her outfitting berth, 30 March 1921. Note: One of California's forward 14" guns has been installed. MINYPW Photo # 4128-3-1921, Navy Photo, 3/30/1921 |
Darryl Baker | ||
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377k | Launching of YSD 29 by YD 33 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 4 June 1941. The tug Cahokia (YTB-135) is in the background alongside YD 33. US Navy photos courtesy of Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | |
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YD-33 alongside USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16), 16 June 1943, while the new tender was being completed at Mare Island Navy Yard. Visible on the far right is the bow of USS Fleming (DE 32).
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 6544-43. | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 alongside USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 6 January 1944. File name: AS 16 160-44, Navy Photo, 1/6/44 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 alongside USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 5 July 1944. File name: AS 16 4206-44, Navy Photo, 7/5/44 |
Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 at right at Mare Island, 9 November 1945. The bow of
USS ARD-11 of this photo of
YO-32. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 7022-45 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 is aft of
USS Blower (SS-325) docked in
USS ARD-32 at Mare Island, 1 Aug 1946, and
USS Eldorado (AGC-11) is to the right of ARD-32 Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2786-46 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 is aft of USS Munsee (ATF-107) (inboard) and USS Achomawi (ATF 148) (outboard), and inboard of USS Harnett County (LST 821), 28 March 1946 at Navy Yard Mare Island. Navy Yard Mare Island photo #'s 1248-46 and 1249-48 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 with the Regulus II missile launcher for Project Lehi abroad prior to installation aboard USS King County (LST-857), 4 April 1957 at Navy Shipyard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA. Mare Island Navy Shipyard photo # 33840-4-57 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 doing the lifting while the Regulus II missile launcher for Project Lehi is being installed aboard King County (LST-857), 5 April 1957 at Navy Shipyard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA. Mare Island Navy Shipyard photo # 33809-4-57 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 transporting a hull section of SSGN-600 (later Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600) from berth 15 to the building ways at Mare Island, 2 July 1958. The bow of USS ARD-32 is at right. Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 39901-7-58 |
Darryl Baker | ||
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Shipyard newspaper "The Grapevine" article from the 26 May 1961 issue "Huge Crane on Aid Trip." Describes YD-33 performing a 150 ton lift at Todd Shipyard at Alameda | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 and YRB-20 in the background of this photo of USS Caiman (SS-323) in Mare Island's dry dock #4 in February 1967 while in overhaul at the yard. File name: 2-80 SS 323 DD#4 Feb 67, Navy Photo, Feb. 1967 | Darryl Baker | ||
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YD-33 and Satanta (YTM-270) support USS Guitarro (SSN-665) to prevent her from capsizing after the submarine's accidental sinking in the Napa River at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 15 May 1969. Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo |
Darryl Baker | ||
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