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  2. Float (nautical) - Wikipedia

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    They are used in pontoon bridges, floating piers, and floats anchored to the seabed for recreation or dockage. They are also used in shipbuilding and marine salvage, often deployed uninflated then pressurized to raise a sunken object. In military, floats are used as pontoon bridges or transportation platforms for heavier vehicles or machinery.

  3. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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    YFD-2 The first Yard Floating Dock built in 1901, arriving Pearl Harbor 23 Oct. 1940 from New Orleans Naval Yard. Yard Floating Dock (YFD) was used for many types of floating docks, mostly used for harbor or shipyard use. YFDs normally had little-to-no crew space and were serviced from shore. Some auxiliary Repair Docks were converted to YFDs.

  4. Category : Floating drydocks of the United States Navy

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    ARD-12-class floating drydocks (8 P) Pages in category "Floating drydocks of the United States Navy" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.

  5. USS AFDB-2 - Wikipedia

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    USS ABSD-2 at Seeadler Harbor. USS ABSD-2, later redesignated as AFDB-2, was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-2 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-2) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for World War II.

  6. USS Oak Ridge - Wikipedia

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    Photo gallery of Oak Ridge at NavSource Naval History; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MD-191, "Floating Dry Dock USS Oak Ridge (ARDM-1), United States Coast Guard Yard Curtis Bay, 2401 Hawkins Point Road, Solley, Anne Arundel County, MD", 63 photos, 9 measured drawings, 39 data pages, 5 photo caption pages

  7. Dry dock - Wikipedia

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    Floating docks, Gdynia, Poland. A floating dry dock is a type of pontoon for dry docking ships, possessing floodable buoyancy chambers and a U-shaped cross-section. The walls are used to give the dry dock stability when the floor or deck is below the surface of the water. When valves are opened, the chambers fill with water, causing the dry ...

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