A floating crane removing one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/305mm/45_Mod%C3%A8le_1906_gun" class="extiw" title="en:305mm/45 Modèle 1906 gun">305mm guns</a> from the forward turret on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Mirabeau" class="extiw" title="en:French battleship Mirabeau">French battleship <i>Mirabeau</i></a> off Sevastopol in 1919. The ship needed to be lightened considerably after running aground during the French military intervention in the Black Sea.
Photographe inconnu, magazine <i>L'Illustration</i> n° 3983 du 9 août 1919.
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