Hello Jerry;

Yes, in many of their old catalogs, LeBlond boasts about all the lathes
it sells to the US and HMS Navies for shipboard use. In a 1916 catalog
that I recently aquired, they have pictures of a portable 17" lathe
which is made to be easily moved around. It has big 3 foot diameter
cast iron wheels under the headstock end and a swiveling trolley under
the tailstock. They describe it as being designed for use in railroad
yard shops and in shipboard machine shops. Personally, the thought of a
8000 lb lathe on wheels in a tight room on a pitching ship is rather
scary!!!