Special Examples
- Finnieston Crane (aka the Stobcross Crane)
- – Category A -listed example of a 'hammerhead' (cantilever) crane in Glasgow's former docks, built by the William Arrol company.
- – 50 m (164 ft) tall, 175 tonnes (172 long tons; 193 short tons) capacity, built 1926
- Taisun
- – double bridge crane at Yantai, China.
- – 20,000 tonnes (22,046 short tons; 19,684 long tons) capacity, World Record Holder
- – 133 m (436 ft) tall, 120 m (394 ft) span, lift-height 80 m (262 ft)
- Kockums Crane
- – shipyard crane formerly at Kockums, Sweden.
- – 138 m (453 ft) tall, 1,500 tonnes (1,500 long tons; 1,700 short tons) capacity, since moved to Ulsan, South Korea
- Samson and Goliath (cranes)
- – two gantry cranes at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast built by Krupp
- – Goliath is 96 m (315 ft) tall, Samson is 106 m (348 ft)
- – span 140 m (459 ft), lift-height 70 m (230 ft), capacity 840 tonnes (830 long tons; 930 short tons) each, 1,600 tonnes (1,600 long tons; 1,800 short tons) combined
- Breakwater Crane Railway
- – self-propelled steam crane that formerly ran the length of the breakwater at Douglas.
- – ran on 10 feet (3.05 m) gauge track, the broadest in the British Isles
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