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YD-171

Floating Crane:

Built by Demag AG, Bremerhaven, Germany

Placed in Kriegsmarine service as Schwimmkran Nr. 1 at Kiel, 1941

Captured by british at Kiel at close of war

Seized by US as war prize

Assigned to Naval Shipyard Long Beach, CA, 1946 - 1994

Placed out of service, 1994

Struck from the Naval Register, 19 September 1994

Sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) to Panama Canal COmmission, 19 September 1994

Placed in service as Titan, 1996

Placed out of service, circa 2020, currently in storage at Gamboa

Specifications:
Displacement approx. 5000 tons
Length 205'
Beam 108'
Draft 10'
Lifting Capacity 350 tons

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
YD-171
	181k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, circa 1947-1961	Larry Gauthier
	2704k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, circa 1947-1961. In the background are *USS Colahan* (DD-658) and USS Implicit (MSO-455) and alongside in YC-1115**.	Larry Gauthier
	295k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard lifting the 425 ton barge *YC-1115*, circa 1947-1961	Larry Gauthier
	2681k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard lifting what appears to be a section of superstructure, into *AFDB-4* circa 1953.	Larry Gauthier
142617115	181k	Two US Navy yard workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, in front of the former German Navy crane called "Herman the German" (YD-171), circa 1957. Photo from All Hands magazine, October 1957	Robert Hurst
	46k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, circa 1947-1994
	59k
	45k
	61k
	33k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard alongside *USS New Jersey* (BB-62)**
	51k	*YD-171* at Long Beach Naval Shipyard alongside the decommissioned *USS Missouri* (BB-63)**
Commercial Service
	85k	Ex-*YD-171* being transported to Panama aboard a heavy-lift ship, in 1996.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
	67k		Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
	2775k	Ex-*YD-171* in commercial service renamed *Titan* at Gamboa, Panama, 18 April 2011
142617116	358k	*Titan* in use on Panama Canal, 05 December 2011. Photo by Dave Walker, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)	Robert Hurst
	36k	*Titan* at Panama, date unknown

There is no DANFS history available for YD-171 at NavSource

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