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2. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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   Auxiliary floating drydock. An auxiliary floating drydock is a type of US Navy auxiliary floating dry dock. Floating dry docks are able to submerge underwater and to be placed under a ship in need of repair below the water line. Water is then pumped out of the floating dry dock, raising the ship out of the water.

3. Auxiliary repair dock - Wikipedia

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   Auxiliary repair dock. 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.

4. List of Admiralty floating docks - Wikipedia

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   Admiralty Floating Dock No. 17 - Reykjavík. 2750 tons built at Devonport. Moved to Sydney in 1944 arriving in May 1945 [20] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 18 - Clark Stanfield design, lifting capacity of 2750 tons [21] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 19 - Latterly at Vickers Shipbuilders/VSEL.

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. Dry dock - Wikipedia

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   Dry dock - Wikipedia ... Dry dock

7. Shippingport (ARDM-4) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...