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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 ...
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.
The first submarine to have an operational dry deck shelter was the USS Cavalla, which was fitted with the DDS in 1982 and first deployed with it in 1983. [11] It is deployed on the Virginia -class submarine , [ 2 ] the Los Angeles -class submarine , [ 12 ] the Seawolf -class submarine :, [ 13 ] and the Ohio -class submarine . [ 14 ]
USS Scranton (SSN-756), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Scranton, Pennsylvania.. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 26 November 1984, and construction began on 29 August 1986.
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.
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
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USS Richland (YFD-64/AFDM-8) was an AFDM-3-class medium auxiliary floating drydock built in California for the U.S. Navy. Originally named USS YFD-64, she was towed to the Philippines and Guam where she served until war's end. In 1946 she was placed back into service to support submarine maintenance at Guam for the next forty years.