Crane or cranes may refer to:

Common meanings

Crane (bird) Cranes are a family, the Gruidae, of large, long-legged, and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes. The 15 species of cranes are placed in three genera, '' Antigone'', '' Balearica'', and '' Grus''. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated ...

, a large, long-necked bird *

Crane (machine) A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist (device), hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and Sheave (mechanical), sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for l ...

, industrial machinery for lifting ** Crane (rail), a crane suited for use on railroads

People and fictional characters

Crane (surname) Crane is a surname. The name is a derivative from "Cron" in Old English or is the English translation of the German "Krahn" or "Kranich." According to The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain & Ireland, "Cron," "Krahn" and "Kranich" all mea ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname * Crane (given name), a list of people

Places

Barbados

* The Crane, Saint Philip, Barbados

United Kingdom

River Crane, Dorset The River Crane is a river in Dorset, United Kingdom. It flows past Cranborne Manor. Near Verwood it becomes the Moors River The Moors River is a river in east Dorset, England, which starts at the point where the River Crane and the Ebblake ...

* River Crane, London, a small river of London, branch to the Thames

United States

* Crane, Indiana, a town * Crane, Missouri, a town * Crane, Montana, a census-designated place and unincorporated community * Crane, Oregon, a census-designated place and unincorporated community * Crane County, Texas ** Crane, Texas, a city and the county seat * Crane, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Crane, Washington, an unincorporated community * Crane Creek (disambiguation) *

Crane Beach Crane Beach is a conservation and recreation property located in Ipswich, Massachusetts, immediately north of Cape Ann. It consists of a four-mile-long (6 km) sandy beachfront, dunes, and a maritime pitch pine forest. Five and a half miles ...

, Ipswich, Massachusetts * Crane Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands *

Crane Mountain Crane Mountain is in the Warner Mountains, Warner Mountain range and is the tallest peak in Lake County, Oregon, Lake County, Oregon, Oregon, U.S. It is located southeast of Lakeview, Oregon, Lakeview in south-central Oregon, near the northwest c ...

, Oregon *

Camp Crane Camp Crane was a World War I United States Army Ambulance Service (USAAS) training camp, located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its mission was to train ambulance drivers to evacuate casualties on the Western Front in France. It was named for Brigad ...

, a World War I United States Army Ambulance Service training camp located in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Businesses

Crane (St. Paul's Churchyard) Paternoster Row was a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade, with booksellers operating from the street. Paternoster Row was described as "almost synonymous" with the book trade. It was part of an area ca ...

, 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) Cranes are a British rock band formed in 1985. History Formed in 1985Bite Back interview 1989 in Portsmouth, England by siblings Alison and Jim Shaw and named after the many mechanical cranes around the city's docks, Cranes are best known for ...

, a British alternative rock band * Zhuravli ("Cranes"), a famous 1969 Russian song about World War II

Martial arts

* Fujian White Crane, a southern Chinese martial art * Tibetan White Crane, a western/southern Chinese martial art * Crane kick

Schools in the United States

Crane School of Music The Crane School of Music is located in Potsdam, New York, and is one of three schools which make up the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam. Crane consists of approximately 630 undergraduate and 30 graduate students and a faculty o ...

, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, New York * Crane Theological School, Medford, Massachusetts, a former seminary of Tufts University * Crane High School (disambiguation)

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'' * , 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

Other uses

* Cranē, a nymph named by Ovid, identified with the goddess Carna * Cessna Crane, a British name for the United States built

Cessna AT-17 Bobcat The Cessna AT-17 Bobcat or Cessna Crane is a twin-engine advanced trainer aircraft designed and made in the United States, and used during World War II to bridge the gap between single-engine trainers and larger multi-engine combat aircraft. Th ...

training aircraft * Crane baronets, two extinct titles in the Baronetage of England * Crane Melon, an heirloom melon