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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 .
USS Dewey (YFD-1) was a floating dry dock built for the United States Navy in 1905, and named for American Admiral George Dewey. The auxiliary floating drydock was towed to her station in the Philippines in 1906 and remained there until scuttled by American forces in 1942, to prevent her falling into the hands of the invading Japanese.
YFD-2 (Yard Floating Dock-2, USS YFD-2) was an auxiliary floating drydock built for the United States Navy in 1901. The first parts were laid down in early 1901 at Maryland Steel Co. of Sparrows Point, Maryland.
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.
Floating Dry Dock 187 42.7 13.0 * * * Shippingport ARDM-4 129.5 19.8 9.8 * * * References External links. Worldwide Ship Repair Directory 2006-2007, The Motor Ship ...
On 1 August 1946, the dry dock was re-designated as AFDM-7. [2] On 28 October 1950, the dry dock would be on commercial lease. [2] In 1956, AFDM-7 was towed through the Panama Canal and leased to Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. [2] In October 1971, the Navy would reacquire the dry dock as the lease was over. [2]
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.
The Auxiliary repair dock was a type of Auxiliary floating drydock, which could, by design, provide drydock facilities to damaged Navy vessels.Floating drydocks of this type were approximately 500-foot (150 m) long and weighted about 5,000 tons.