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  2. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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    The ship becomes blocked on the deck of the floating dry dock for repair. Most floating dry docks have no engine and are towed by tugboats to their destinations. Floating dry docks come in different sizes to accommodate varying ship sizes, while large floating dry docks come in sections and can be combined to increase their size and lift power.

  3. Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Auxiliary repair dock - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Arco (ARDM-5) - Wikipedia

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    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 at Naval Base San Diego.

  6. Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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    The Auxiliary floating drydock USS YFD-2 was sunk in the attack with destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) in for repair. Dock No. 2 was the only drydock working after the attack, and it still have some finished work to be done. By December 10 the cruiser USS Helena in Dock No. 2 for repair until the 21st. At the same time Dock No. 2 was complete.

  7. Shippingport (ARDM-4) - Wikipedia

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    With a displacement of 5400 tons, this floating dry dock had a lifting capacity of 7800 tons. [1] Shippingport has two 25 ton portal gantry cranes on tracks, [2] one running along the top deck of each hull side superstructure. [3] She is a government owned, private contractor operated, restored and certified drydock used to execute submarine ...

  8. Odessos Shiprepair Yard - Wikipedia

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    The depth of the port varies from 5,30 m to 9,80 m. Odessos Shiprepair Yard S.A. has 17 cranes. The graving dock is equipped with one 30 t crane, two 15 t cranes and one 10 t crane. Floating dock No. 2 is equipped with two 15 t cranes and floating dock No. 3 is equipped with two 20 t cranes. Also available is a 100 t floating crane.

  9. PD-50 - Wikipedia

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    PD-50 (Russian: ПД-50), Soviet designation Project 7454, was a Russian large floating dry dock built at the Götaverken Arendal shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden and commissioned in the 1980s. At the time, it was the world's largest floating dry dock and used primarily to service the ships and submarines of the Northern Fleet.