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2. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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   Auxiliary floating drydock. An auxiliary floating drydock is a type of US Navy auxiliary floating dry dock. Floating dry docks are able to submerge underwater and to be placed under a ship in need of repair below the water line. Water is then pumped out of the floating dry dock, raising the ship out of the water.

3. Category : Floating drydocks of the United States Navy

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   USS Alamogordo. Arco (ARDM-5) USS ARD-1. USS ARD-10. USS ARD-17. USS Arco (ARD-29) ARDC-13. USS Artisan. Auxiliary floating drydock.

4. Dry dock - Wikipedia

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   Floating docks, Gdynia, Poland. A floating dry dock is a type of pontoon for dry docking ships, possessing floodable buoyancy chambers and a U-shaped cross-section. The walls are used to give the dry dock stability when the floor or deck is below the surface of the water. When valves are opened, the chambers fill with water, causing the dry ...

5. USS Artisan - Wikipedia

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   USS Artisan (ABSD-1), later redesignated as (AFDB-1), was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the United States Navy.The only U.S. warship with this name, Artisan was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the Everett-Pacific Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, in Everett, Washington; the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, in Eureka, California; the Pollock ...

6. List of Admiralty floating docks - Wikipedia

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   Admiralty Floating Dock No. 17 - Reykjavík. 2750 tons built at Devonport. Moved to Sydney in 1944 arriving in May 1945 [20] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 18 - Clark Stanfield design, lifting capacity of 2750 tons [21] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 19 - Latterly at Vickers Shipbuilders/VSEL.

7. USS AFDB-2 - Wikipedia

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   USS ABSD-2 at Seeadler Harbor. USS ABSD-2, later redesignated as AFDB-2, was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-2 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-2) was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California for World War II.