Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Scenes along the waterfront yesterday as the Boston Dry Dock Company moved a 210-foot marine railway cradle a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. Above--tugs easing the cradle past the Marginal street drawbridge. below--the cradle, arrived at its destination, is drawn up into a larger cradle (foreground) for overhauling.
Scenes along the waterfront yesterday as the Boston Dry Dock Company moved a 210-foot marine railway cradle a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. Above--tugs easing the cradle past the Marginal street drawbridge. below--the cradle, arrived at its destination, is drawn up into a larger cradle (foreground) for overhauling.
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Scenes along the waterfront yesterday as the Boston Dry Dock Company moved a 210-foot marine railway cradle a distance of about three-quarters of a mile. Above--tugs easing the cradle past the Marginal street drawbridge. below--the cradle, arrived at its destination, is drawn up into a larger cradle (foreground) for overhauling.

[ca. January 1939]

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