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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.
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft.
The Royal Navy had a number of floating drydocks for the repair of warships where there was no fixed dry dock available. The docks did not receive a name and were known as "Admiralty Floating Dock" with a number. In size they went up to ones capable of lifting the largest Royal Navy battleships .
This is a list of the largest dry docks in the world, including excavated and floating docks. Yard. Country. City. Dock name. L (m) B (m) D (m) Newbuild.
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.
ARD-12-class floating dry dock: Displacement: 6,800 tons: Length: 491 ft 8 in (149.86 m) Beam: 81 ft (24.7 m) Propulsion: None: Armament: 2 × 40 mm AA guns; 2 × 20 mm AA guns; General characteristics (as refit 1963) Class and type: ARDM-1-class: Displacement: 7,390 long tons: Length: 536 ft 1 in (163.40 m)