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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.
On 1 March 1988, Los Angeles was again dry docked for Selected Restricted Availability and undocked on 11 May. [11] Bremerton started the year 1995 in drydock aboard the Competent. [12] She was decommissioned in August 1997 and later stricken from the Naval Register on 21 August. [2] The dry dock was donated to a private company to be used in ...
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.
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 ...
In 1946, it was reclassified as an auxiliary floating dry dock (AFDB-7) and towed to Florida to be part of the Navy's Atlantic Reserve Fleet. In the early 1960s, four sections of AFDB-7 were towed ...
USS ABSD-3 at Guam, empty USS AFDB-3 (ABSD-3) with rail traveling 15-ton crane, in Guam. ABSD-3 is an advanced base sectional dock, constructed of nine advance base dock (ABD) sections for the US Navy as an auxiliary floating drydock for World War II.