Weeks 533

The floating barge-crane, originally named Marine Boss, was built for Murphy Pacific Marine. The barge was assembled by Zidell Explorations from scrapped ship steel in Oregon{{cite web |url=http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/5small/inactive/zidell.htm |title=Zidell Marine, Portland OR |date=27 August 2014 |author=Colton, Tim |website=Shipbuilding History |access-date=5 February 2015 }} in 1966 and fitted in San Francisco with a heavy 500-ton revolving crane made by Clyde Iron Works{{cite book |title=The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, 1966–1976 |author=Newell, Gordon R |chapter=Maritime Events of 1966 |date=1976 |publisher=Superior Publishing |location=Seattle |isbn=978-0875642208 }} to perform the heavy girder and deck-section lifts for construction of the 1967 San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.{{cite conference |url=http://www.orthotropic-bridge.org/pdffiles/CaliforniaOrthotropicBridgeBusTourOBC2008.pdf |author=Mangus, Alfred R. |date=30 August 2008 |title=California Orthotropic Bridge Bus Tour |conference=Orthotropic Bridge Conference |location=Sacramento, California |access-date=15 January 2015 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52349958/ |title=ADVERTISEMENT: Murphy Pacific Bridge Builders |author= |date=19 October 1967 |newspaper=The Times |location=San Mateo |access-date=5 February 2015 }}{{subscription required}} At the time it was the largest barge crane in the western United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist11/operations/bridgeprint.htm |title=Fact Sheet: San Diego – Coronado Bridge Seismic Retrofit Project |author= |date=March 1999 |website=California Department of Transportation |access-date=6 February 2015 }}

In the 1970s, Marine Boss was sold to J. Ray McDermott & Co., who had introduced the first 500-ton floating cranes for offshore platform construction in 1965{{cite journal |url=http://www.mcdermott.com/AboutUs/Pages/History.aspx |title=History — 1960s — Expanded Reach |author= |journal=McDermott International |access-date=6 February 2015 }} and were operating a similar fleet of barge-cranes under the McDermott Derrick Barge (DB) class.{{cite web |url=http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth37515/m1/1/ |title=McDermott derrick barge no. 17 |author=Levingston Photography |website=Portal to Texas History |access-date=3 February 2015 }} McDermott would later sell it for scrap in 1988 to Weeks Marine in New Jersey,{{cite journal |url=http://www.cranestodaymagazine.com/features/new-life-for-the-marine-boss/ |title=New life for the Marine Boss |author= |date=2 January 2001 |journal=Cranes Today |access-date=15 January 2015 }} who renamed it the Weeks 533 and refurbished it from 1997-2000. Weeks 533 is considered the flagship of the Weeks fleet.{{cite journal |url=http://www.weeksmarine.com/sites/default/files/January%202012%20Newsletter.pdf |title=On Assignment: Heavy lift, salvage and marine transportation |author= |date=January 2012 |journal=Weeks Marine Journal |access-date=5 February 2015 }}

One of the tugboats returning Weeks 533 from Albany to New Jersey collided with the moored 750t crane barge N181 (aka Hank Hummel) near the Tappan Zee Bridge at night in heavy fog on 12 March 2016. That tug, the Specialist, subsequently sank, killing all three sailors.{{cite journal |url=http://www.professionalmariner.com/June-July-2016/Tugboat-hits-barge-and-sinks-at-NY-bridge-construction-site-killing-3/ |title=Tugboat hits barge and sinks at NY bridge construction site, killing 3 |author=Bleyer, Bill |date=27 May 2016 |journal=Professional Mariner |access-date=25 July 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-jersey/njdce/2:2016cv01463/330895/28/ |title=In re complaint of Weeks Marine, Inc. |author=McNulty, Kevin |quote=No. 16-cv-1463 (KM)(JBC) |date=14 June 2016 |website=casetext |access-date=25 July 2016}} Although the mate, who was at the helm of Specialist, initially jumped clear from the stricken tug onto N181, he returned to help free a trapped crewmate and all hands aboard subsequently drowned.{{cite report |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/mab1714.pdf |title=Collision and Subsequent Sinking of Towing Vessel Specialist, Marine Accident Brief DCA16FM033 |date=12 March 2016 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |access-date=20 August 2017}}

The Clyde Iron Works Model 52-DE crane{{cite web |url=http://www.weeksmarine.com/docs/default-source/Equipments/Heavy-Lift/533-general-arrangements.pdf?sfvrsn=0 |title="Weeks 533" General Arrangement and Elevation Chart |author=Patel, Jitendra |date=19 February 2004 |website=Weeks Marine |access-date=3 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313035048/http://www.weeksmarine.com/docs/default-source/Equipments/Heavy-Lift/533-general-arrangements.pdf?sfvrsn=0 |archive-date=13 March 2016 |url-status=live}} can lift {{convert |500|ST|MT|0}} using the main hoist on a {{convert |210|ft|m|0|adj=on}} boom at any point in the crane's revolution; capacity rises to {{convert |600|ST|MT|0}} when using the main hoist oriented astern. The capacity of the middle lift is 150 000 lbs, of the small lift on the top of the boom is 50 000 lbs. Motive power for the main hoist is provided by a Caterpillar 3412 V-12 diesel engine, and electric power for the barge is provided by a Caterpillar 3406 I-6 diesel generator set.

• Rio Vista Bridge replacement span (1967){{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kbUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=2497%2C5369069 |title=Closure Set For Bridge At Rio Vista|author= |date=3 June 1967 |newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel |access-date=6 February 2015 }}
• San Mateo–Hayward Bridge (1967){{cite web |url=http://www.orthotropic-bridge.org/2004BridgePages/Pages/USA.htm |title=Orthotropic Bridges in the U.S.A. Built from 1960-2003 |author=Mangus, Alfred R. |website=Orthotropic Bridge Conference |date=2004 |access-date=18 January 2015 }}
• San Diego–Coronado Bridge (1969)
• Queensway Twin Bridges (1971),{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/30675973/ |title=Queen's Way Bridge Fast Taking Shape |author= |date=10 August 1969 |newspaper=Independent Press-Telegram |location=Long Beach |access-date=6 February 2015 }}{{subscription required}} near {{RMS|Queen Mary}} at the Port of Long Beach
• Fremont Bridge (Portland) (1973){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=laTfY36RfY0C&pg=PA112 |title=Bridges of Portland |author=Bottenberg, Ray |date=2007 |pages=112–113 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Charleston, South Carolina |isbn=978-0-7385-4876-0 |lccn=2006935600 |access-date=18 January 2015 }}

File:San Diego-Coronado Bridge Construction (15556-12).jpg|alt=Constructing the San Diego-Coronado Bridge|Murphy Pacific's Marine Boss at work on the San Diego–Coronado Bridge (c.1968)

File:K-81565 Sealab III.jpg|alt=Black and white close-up of rotating crane barge|Marine Boss moving SEALAB III near San Clemente Island (Dec 1968)

File:Space Shuttle Enterprise lifted onto deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid (7402541782).jpg|alt=Weeks 533, a crane barge, lifts the Space Shuttle Enterprise|Weeks 533 lifts the Enterprise onto {{ship|USS|Intrepid|CV-11|6}} (2012)

File:USAirways-1549 lifting out of Hudson.jpg|alt=US Airways Flight 1549 is lifted from the Hudson River|US Airways Flight 1549

• UGM-73 Poseidon missile test facility structural members at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (1967){{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eGdNCPF7dQcC&pg=PA18 |title=Test facility modifications for Poseidon |author=Venturino, Marco F. |date=March–April 1967 |journal=The Navy Civil Engineer |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=18–19 |access-date=3 January 2020}}
• SEALAB III, off the coast of San Clemente Island (1969){{cite web |url=https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-27106834-1960s-marine-boss-crane-lowers-sealab-iii |title=1960s: The Marine Boss crane lowers SEALAB III, an underwater habitat, into the ocean around San Clemente Island, California, and United States Navy divers inspect it, in 1969. |publisher=Shutterstock |access-date=3 January 2020}}
• Pier protection system for the Tappan Zee Bridge (2000){{cite web |url=http://www.weeksmarine.com/projects/project-details/tappen-zee-bridge---main-channel-pier-protection |title=Tappan Zee Bridge - Main Channel Pier Protection |publisher=Weeks Marine |access-date=25 February 2018}}
• Cleanup of the World Trade Center in New York City from the September 11 attacks (2001), moored below 55 Water Street.
• The capsized MV Stellamare at the Port of Albany–Rensselaer (2003, as a team with Donjon's Chesapeake 1000){{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=x3ohAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IIoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2943%2C6876416 |title=Second generator pulled from ship |author=Foss, Sara |date=31 December 2003 |newspaper=The Daily Gazette |location=Schenectady |access-date=5 February 2015 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.professionalmariner.com/February-2007/Three-dead-as-heavy-lift-ship-capsizes-while-loading-generator/ |title=Three dead as heavy-lift ship capsizes while loading generator |author=Aichele, Richard O. |date=28 February 2007 |newspaper=Professional Mariner |access-date=5 February 2015 }}
• The downed Airbus A320 hull of US Airways Flight 1549 (2009) from the Hudson River
• Concorde G-BOAD on Pier 86 (2008){{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/concorde-lands-intrepid-sea-air-space-museum-nov-8-re-opening-article-1.302922 |title=Concorde lands at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for Nov. 8 re-opening |author=Townsend, Matt |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=New York Daily News |access-date=5 February 2015 }} and Enterprise (2012){{cite magazine |title=Enterprise to Intrepid |author=Dicht, Burton |date=October 2012 |magazine=Mechanical Engineering |publisher=American Society of Mechanical Engineers |pages=36–41}} onto the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum{{cite journal |url=http://www.professionalmariner.com/September-2012/Worlds-most-famous-crane-Shuttle-move-shines-spotlight-on-Weeks/ |title=World's most famous crane? Shuttle move shines spotlight on Weeks |author=Gauvin, Brian |date=22 August 2012 |journal=Professional Mariner |access-date=15 January 2015 }}{{cite news |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/space_shuttle_enterprise_is_th.html |title=Space shuttle Enterprise is the latest historic vessel picked up by legendary Jersey City crane |author=Rose, Lisa |date=6 June 2012 |newspaper=New Jersey Star-Ledger |access-date=15 January 2015 }}
• The old main span of the East 78th Street pedestrian bridge and the replacement span (2011–2012) over FDR Drive.{{cite web |url=http://www.gandhieng.com/NEWS/East%2078th%20Street%20-%20for%20website.pdf |title=Reconstruction of East 78th Street Bridge |author= |date=August 2011 |website=Gandhi Engineering |access-date=5 February 2015 }}{{cite web |url=https://asmp.org/articles/client-favorites-kruszewski.html |title=Client Favorites: Teresa Kruszewski |author= |date=October 2011 |website=American Society of Media Photographers |access-date=5 February 2015 }}
• The replacement New York–New Jersey Rail Greenville Yard transfer bridge (2013) in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.{{cite journal |url=http://www.weeksmarine.com/sites/default/files/Winter%202013r.pdf |title=Super Storm Sandy Aftermath: Weeks Marine Clean Up and Relief Efforts |author= |date=Winter 2013 |journal=Weeks Marine Journal |access-date=5 February 2015 }}
• Steel jacket foundations for Block Island Wind Farm (2015).{{cite news |url=http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150718/NEWS/150719266 |title=Giant crane arrives off Block Island to install first foundation for offshore wind farm |author=Kuffner, Alex |date=18 July 2015 |newspaper=Providence Journal |access-date=14 November 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150726/NEWS/150729446|title=First foundation for Deepwater wind farm installed off Block Island |author=Kuffner, Alex |date=26 July 2015 |newspaper=Providence Journal |access-date=14 November 2016}}{{cite news |url=http://www.rechargenews.com/wind/869307/in-pictures-us-offshore-wind-puts-its-first-steel-in-the-water |title=IN PICTURES: US offshore wind puts its first steel in the water |author=Stromsta, Karl-Erik |date=28 July 2015 |newspaper=Recharge |access-date=14 November 2016}}
• Salvage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and MV Dali from the Port of Baltimore (2024, as a team with Donjon's Chesapeake 1000).{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Jerry |date=2024-03-31 |title=Sunday work around the Key Bridge |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/31/sunday-work-around-the-key-bridge-photos/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Baltimore Sun |language=en-US}}

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.weeksmarine.com/equipment/equipment-details/533---crane |title=Weeks 533 |website=Weeks Marine |access-date=15 January 2015 }}
• [http://surveyorconnect.com/index.php?mode=thread&id=76189 Pictures of Weeks 533 in dry dock]
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• {{cite web |url=http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_title=WEEKS%20533 |author= |title=Weeks 533 |website=Shipspotting |access-date=3 February 2015 }}
• {{cite web |url=http://cryptome.org/eyeball/lift-1549/lift-1549.htm

|title=Lifting Flight 1549 from the Hudson |author=Young, John |date=17 January 2009 |website=Cryptome |access-date=3 February 2015 }}

• {{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/hudson.plane.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText |author= |title=Pilot landed in Hudson to avoid 'catastrophic consequences' |date=18 January 2009

|newspaper=CNN |access-date=3 February 2015 }}

• {{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2009/05/gallery_flight_1549?currentPage=3 |author=Shechmeister, Matthew |title=The Unlikely Events of a Water Landing: New Photos From Flight 1549 |date=13 May 2009 |publisher=Wired |access-date=9 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102023332/http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2009/05/gallery_flight_1549?currentPage=3 |archive-date=2 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}

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