Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Portal Gantry Crane No. 55, Central Industrial Area, Farragut Avenue, Bremerton, Kitsap County, WA

Significance: Portal crane No. 55 is representative of the traveling portal gantry cranes at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. The cranes are the principal hoisting devices, providing nearly all of the lifting of material and supplies onto and off of ships, both at the piers and in the drydocks. Unlike most naval shipyards, nearly all of the major ship repair and ship building facilities of the Shipyard are served by an interconnected system of 20-gauge rail track on which the cranes travel, providing greater flexibility in the distribution and arrangement of the cranes. Thus, since World War II the portal cranes have been an essential and fundamental element of the workings of the industrial section of the Shipyard.

Survey number: HAER WA-116-D

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88003053

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1969 - 1980

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