The crane drain and MARS.(Second Thoughts)

Marine Log, March, 2008 by Blenkey, Nick

The mighty 1,200-ton gantry crane that once spanned the building dock of what was the Quincy Shipbuilding Division of General Dynamics has been sold to Daewoo Mangalia in Romania.

It's been a long time since any ships were built at the Quincy yard. It was started, as the Fore River Engine Co., in 1884 by Alexander Graham Bell's assistant Thomas Augustus Watson, who is better remembered in history as the first person to ever receive a telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!"). It closed its doors in 1986. That's more than 20 years ago, but the removal ...