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Dry Dock No. 4 302 50.0 11.5 * Philippines: Subic Bay Freeport Zone: Dry Dock No. 5 370 100.0 12.5 * Dry Dock No. 6 550 135.0 13.5 * Thales Australia: Australia: Garden Island, Sydney: Captain Cook graving dock 346 41.6 13.0 * * [50] 63 12.9 5.0 * * * National Ports Authority of South Africa: South Africa: Durban 352 33.5 12.6 * [51] 109 23.3 6 ...
By 1920, the yard had a 12,000 ton floating dry dock, which cost $1.25 million ($22 million today) to build. [3] The first four freighters were delivered in July 1918 and another four were delivered before the war ended. [1] Delivered in November 1921, SS West Chopaka was the 35th and final ship built for the US Shipping Board at San Pedro.
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
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 ...
A downside of floating dry docks is that unscheduled sinkings and off-design dives may take place, as with the Russian dock PD-50 in 2018. [ 21 ] The " Hughes Mining Barge ", or HMB-1, is a covered, floating drydock that is also submersible to support the secret transfer of a mechanical lifting device underneath the Glomar Explorer ship, as ...
Jul. 16—A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to the Port of Brownsville in the 1990s has been retired. The advanced base sectional dock ...
All YFDs were reclassified as AFDMs in 1945 (see List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy § Medium auxiliary floating dry docks (AFDM)). Dewey (YFD-1) , scuttled 8 April 1942 in the Philippines, raised by the Japanese and sunk again by US aircraft on 13 November 1944
Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding's USS Artisan with USS Antelope (IX-109) and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 8 January 1945. Auxiliary Floating Docks, Big, came in sections that are 3,850 tons and are 93 feet long each. Each Section had a 165 feet beam, a 75 feet molded depth and had 10,000 tons lifting capacity each.