Floating Crane

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1944 via Peter Flahavin
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1945 via Peter Flahavin
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David Paulley 1982
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Justin Taylan 2003

 

Wartime History
This salvage ship / crane was operating off Guadalcanal late in the war.

Postwar
It came loose from its moring in the Kukum area during a storm in 1957, and drifted to the west and ran aground and sunk in the Kokumbona / Poha area.

References
Thanks to Peter Flahavin for additional information.

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