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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. 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.

  4. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest dry docks in the world, including excavated and floating docks ... Floating Dry Dock 187 42.7 13.0 * * * Shippingport ARDM-4 129.5 ...

  5. Shippingport (ARDM-4) - Wikipedia

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    96 ft (29.3 m) Propulsion. None. Shippingport (ARDM-4) is an ARDM-4 -class United States Navy Medium Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock. She is one of the Navy's two medium auxiliary repair dry docks, and was the first floating dry dock built for the US Navy since World War II. [1] Laid down in 1977, delivered and placed in service on 4 January 1979 ...

  6. 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 ...

  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.

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