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2. Auxiliary repair dock - Wikipedia

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   Floating drydocks of this type were approximately 500-foot (150 m) long and weighted about 5,000 tons. The first auxiliary repair dock was the USS ARD-1, built by the Pacific Bridge Company and completed in September 1934. ARD-1 was 393 feet and 6 inches (119.94 m) long, and could lift 2200 tons.

3. USS ABSD-6 - Wikipedia

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   ABSD-6 is an advanced base sectional dock which was constructed of nine advance base docks (ABD) sections for the US Navy as an auxiliary floating drydock for World War II. ABSD-6 was built by Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California. ABSD-6 was commissioned on 28 September 1944.

4. Royal Navy Dockyard - Wikipedia

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   In 1694, Edmund Dummer referred to "His Majesty's new Dock and Yard at Plymouth"; from around that time, HM Dock Yard (or HM Dockyard) increasingly became the official designation. While, as this phrase suggests, the primary meaning of 'Dockyard' is a Yard with a Dock , not all dockyards possessed one; for example, at both Bermuda and Portland ...

5. List of ships of the United States Army - Wikipedia

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   The Liberty ship Rebecca Lukens was converted into a floating machine shop, repair, and maintenance depot and rechristened as the Maj Gen Herbert A Dargue. A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.

6. Float (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   A floating dock, floating pier or floating jetty consists of a platform or ramp supported by nautical floats. It is sometimes joined to the shore with a gangway but can be laid out the whole way from the shore to the end.

7. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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   Floating dock № 152 225 36.6 * * [99] Floating dock № 154 225 36.6 * * Floating dock № 5 ZH-B 90.9 23.5 * * Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries: United Kingdom: Belfast: Building Dock 556 93.0 8.4 * * [100] Belfast Dry Dock 335 50.3 12.2 * Able UK: United Kingdom: Teesside 376 233 12.15