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The Auxiliary repair dock was a type of Auxiliary floating drydock, which could, by design, provide drydock facilities to damaged Navy vessels.Floating drydocks of this type were approximately 500-foot (150 m) long and weighted about 5,000 tons.
To reduce travel time for repair work, over 150 auxiliary floating dry docks of different sizes were built during World War II between 1942 and 1945. These newly built floating dry docks had a lift capacity of 400 to 100,000 tons. Without these forward repair bases, ships would have had to return to the US for repairs. Between 1 October 1944 ...
96 ft (29 m) Height. 61 ft (19 m) Complement. 5 officer, 125 enlisted. Arco (ARDM-5) is an ARDM-5 -class Medium Auxiliary floating drydock for repair and serviced the United States Navy . Arco was laid down on 9 May 1983 by Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington, and launched on 14 December 1984. She was placed in service on 23 June 1986 ...
96 ft (29.3 m) Propulsion. None. Shippingport (ARDM-4) is an ARDM-4 -class United States Navy Medium Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock. She is one of the Navy's two medium auxiliary repair dry docks, and was the first floating dry dock built for the US Navy since World War II. [1] Laid down in 1977, delivered and placed in service on 4 January 1979 ...
The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company was a major late 19th/early 20th century ship repair and conversion facility located in New York City.Begun in the 1880s as a small shipsmithing business known as the Morse Iron Works, the company grew to be one of America's largest ship repair and refit facilities, at one time owning the world's largest floating dry dock.
Steve Clark, The Brownsville Herald, Texas. July 17, 2024 at 4:47 PM. Jul. 16—A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to the Port of ...
USS Oak Ridge (ARD-19/ARDM-1) was originally a United States Navy Auxiliary floating drydock suitable for dry docking destroyers, submarines and landing craft, built by the Pacific Bridge Company. In the early 1960s she was upgraded to support Los Angeles-class submarines, and re-classified as ARDM-1 -class. A stern door and enclosed bow design ...
USS. Arco. (ARD-29) USS ARD-29 a land drydocked at Naval Shipyard Pearl Harbor in Drydock Number Four for repairs in April 1951. USS ARD-29 was an auxiliary repair dock that served with the United States Navy during World War II as an Auxiliary floating drydock. In 1967, the ship was renamed Arco, and in the 1970s the vessel was first loaned ...