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Sturrock Dry Dock 370 45.1 13.7 * [52] Robinson Dry Dock 161 20.7 7.9 * South African Navy / Armscor: South Africa: Simon's Town: Selborne Graving Dock: 231 36.58 13.7 Sermetal Estaleiros: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Dry Dock 1 155 25.0 8.0 [53] Dry Dock 2 350 65.0 10.0 Astilleros Braswell International: Panama: Balboa: Dock No. 1 318 33.6 7.9 * [54]
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
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 ...
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 ...
Todd Galveston yard went into Chapter 11 and closed in 1990. The yard was sold. The yard had two Panamax floating dry-docks that were moved to the Alabama Shipyard and Bender Shipbuilding. In 1993, the remainder of Todd Galveston on Pelican Island was sold to the Port of Galveston. It is now part of Newpark Marine, Gulf Copper runs an offshore ...
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.
USS ABSD-4, later redesignated as AFDB-4, was a nine-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-4 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-4) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for World War II. With all ten sections joined ...
The drydock can accommodate a maximum vessel length of 291.6 feet (88.9 m) with a 39.33-foot (11.99 m) beam. Depth is 30 feet (9.1 m). the dock can be dewatered in 40 minutes and flooded in 90 minutes. [5] The drydock was built between 1827 and 1834, and cost $974,365.65, a very high price at that time. [4]