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2. USS ABSD-3 - Wikipedia

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   USS ABSD-3 at Guam, empty USS AFDB-3 (ABSD-3) with rail traveling 15-ton crane, in Guam. ABSD-3 is an advanced base sectional dock, constructed of nine advance base dock (ABD) sections for the US Navy as an auxiliary floating drydock for World War II.

3. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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   USS Artisan with USS Antelope (IX-109) and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 8 January 1945 Los Alamos (AFDB-7), with a repaired submarine at Holy Loch, Scotland in 1985 YFD-2 The first Yard Floating Dock built in 1901, arriving Pearl Harbor 23 October 1940 from New Orleans Naval Yard USS Pennsylvania in drydock USS Dewey, the second YFD, c. 1906–1907

4. Category : Floating drydocks of the United States Navy

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   Pages in category "Floating drydocks of the United States Navy" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ~

5. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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   Floating Dry Dock 187 42.7 13.0 * * * Shippingport ARDM-4 129.5 19.8 9.8 * * * References External links. Worldwide Ship Repair Directory 2006-2007, The Motor Ship ...

6. USS Sustain (AFDM-7) - Wikipedia

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   On 1 August 1946, the dry dock was re-designated as AFDM-7. [2] On 28 October 1950, the dry dock would be on commercial lease. [2] In 1956, AFDM-7 was towed through the Panama Canal and leased to Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. [2] In October 1971, the Navy would reacquire the dry dock as the lease was over. [2]

7. Historic dry dock at Port of Brownsville retired - AOL

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   Jul. 16—A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to the Port of Brownsville in the 1990s has been retired. The advanced base sectional dock ...

8. 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 ...

9. Auxiliary repair dock - Wikipedia

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   An auxiliary repair dock (ARD) is a type of floating drydock employed by the U.S. Navy, especially during World War II. The Navy commissioned 33 ARD vessels: ARD-1 through ARD-33. ARDs were self-sustaining in World War II. ARDs have a rudder to help in tow moving, making ARDs very mobile, and have a bow to cut through waves.