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A graving dock is the traditional form of dry dock. [16] It is a narrow basin, usually made of earthen berms and concrete, closed by gates or a caisson . A vessel is floated in with the gates open, then the gates are closed and the water is pumped out, leaving the craft supported on blocks.
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The Navy’s 1940-43 expansion of the South Boston Annex was built "in an area contiguous to the Commonwealth Dock, a 1,200-foot drydock originally built by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and subsequently acquired by the Navy (p. 168)." [4] This pre-existing graving-dock facility is what’s now called "Dry Dock Number 3".
Gladstone Dock in the foreground, with branch docks 1,2 & 3 (a former graving dock) from right to left. A branch dock is a dock that forms part of a large harbour system of interlinked docks. [1] Part of Liverpool's docks, showing Huskisson Dock and its three branches to the left, with Sandon Dock and its isolated basins at centre-right
The dock closest to the building was later filled in, the next one over with the pointy end was filled in by IKEA in 2005. The outline of this dock can still be seen in satellite mapping photos. Erie Basin dry dock (est. 1866) was a graving dock facility located at Erie Basin, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City. There were at least two docks ...
The graving dock was completed in February 1938 and was more than 300 m (980 ft) in length and was the largest dry dock in the world at the time. [18] With the impending capture of Singapore by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942, the dry dock gates were blown off and machinery destroyed.
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The Calliope Dock is a historical stone dry dock on the grounds of the Devonport Naval Base, in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand. It was built in 1888 to service ships of the British Royal Navy , and is still in use today.