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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.
Central to this maintenance were the Navy's construction and delivery of 155 new floating dry docks deployed to various bases, including three 3,000-ton, three 1,000-ton and one 900-ton floating docks remaining at the San Diego Repair Base. The floating dry docks became the central repair and training facilities on the base which were crucial ...
Submarine Squadron 11 is a squadron of submarines based in San Diego, California. It consists of four Los Angeles -class submarines , a floating dry-dock, Arco , and Undersea Rescue Command. The squadron staff is responsible for providing training, material and personnel readiness support for all units.
San Diego 305 53.0 9.1 * * [59] 250 41.4 * ... Floating Dry Dock 187 42.7 13.0 * * * ... Worldwide Ship Repair Directory 2006-2007, ...
Auxiliary Floating Docks, Light (AFDL), also known as Auxiliary Floating Docks (AFD), were 288 ft (88 m) long, had a beam of 64 ft (20 m), and draft of 3 ft 3 in (0.99 m) empty and 31 ft 4 in (9.55 m) flooded to load a ship. A normal crew was 60 men. AFDL displacement was 1,200 tons and could lift 1,900 tons.
USS ARD-1 under tow by USS Bridge 28 October 1934. USS ARD-1 was an auxiliary repair dock serving with the United States Navy during World War II as Auxiliary floating drydock. ARD-1 was built by the Pacific Bridge Company and completed in September 1934. ARD-1 was commissioned at Alameda, California on 19 December 1935 then towed to San Diego ...
536 ft 1 in (163.40 m) Alamogordo (ARDM-2) — a non-self-propelled United States Navy Auxiliary floating drydock completed in 1944 at Oakland, California, by the Pacific Bridge Company as ARD-26 — was commissioned on 15 June 1944. The floating dry dock completed outfitting at Oakland and training at Tiburon, CA, between mid-June and late August.
Steve Clark, The Brownsville Herald, Texas. July 17, 2024 at 4:47 PM. Jul. 16—A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to the Port of ...