Crane

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Crane or cranes may refer to:

Common meanings

People and fictional characters

Places

Barbados

  • The Crane, Saint Philip, Barbados

United Kingdom

United States

Businesses

  • Crane (St. Paul's Churchyard)
    , a historical bookseller in London
  • Crane & Co.
    , a supplier of paper for US banknotes
  • Crane Co., an American industrial products company
  • Crane Bank, a commercial bank in Uganda.
  • Crane Merchandising Systems
    , a vending machine manufacturer
  • Crane Plumbing, a brand of plumbing fixtures made by American Standard Brands
  • Crane-Simplex, an American car manufacturer, formerly named Crane Motor Car Company
  • The Crane Group Companies, an American construction and materials company

Arts and entertainment

  • The Crane, a 1992 short film starring Jude Law
  • Crane (TV series), a British TV series starring Patrick Allen, which ran from 1963 to 1965
  • Cranes (band), a British alternative rock band
  • Zhuravli ("Cranes"), a famous 1969 Russian song about World War II
  • Orizuru, a classic Japanese origami sculpture in the shape of a crane

Martial arts

Schools in the United States

Ships

  • USFS Crane, a United States Bureau of Fisheries fishery patrol vessel in commission from 1928 to 1940 which also served from 1940 to 1960 in the fleet of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as US FWS Crane
  • USS Crane (DD-109), a United States Navy Wickes-class destroyer in commission from 1919 to 1922 and from 1939 to 1945
  • USS Crane Ship No. 1, the name from 1941 to 1955 of a United States Navy crane ship which formerly served as the battleship USS Kearsarge (BB-5)

Other uses

See also

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