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The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company was a major late 19th/early 20th century ship repair and conversion facility located in New York City.Begun in the 1880s as a small shipsmithing business known as the Morse Iron Works, the company grew to be one of America's largest ship repair and refit facilities, at one time owning the world's largest floating dry dock.
Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation was a shipyard located in Brooklyn, New York. It was located off 23rd Street in Greenwood Heights/Sunset Park, in the Tebo Basin. [1] Sullivan DD&RC built Submarine chasers (PC boats), and altered, repaired and converted ships for various branches of the US military during World War II.
The Alfredo da Silva Dry Dock in Almada, Portugal, was closed in 2000. The largest roofed dry dock is at the German Meyer Werft Shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, it is 504 m long, 125 m wide and stands 75 m tall. [14] Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the site of a large dry dock 556 by 93 metres (1,824 ft × 305 ...
Erie Basin dry dock (est. 1866) was a graving dock facility located at Erie Basin, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City. There were at least two docks built, although only one remained into the 21st century. The dock contributed to making Red Hook the "center of the shipping industry in New York", and was part of Erie Basin's dry and shipping ...
Erie Basin c. 1920 Erie Basin 1945 Erie Basin, the "busiest place in the Port of New York" c. 1920. Erie Basin is a man-made harbor and shipping facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It is a part of the Port of New York City. Established in 1864, it functions to load and unload ships, store merchandise in warehouses, including grain, and provide dry ...
The Red Hook graving dock (est. 1866), initially known as "Graving Dock One", [1] was a 730-foot-long (220 m) graving dock located inside Erie Basin, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York City. The dock contributed to making Red Hook the "center of the shipping industry in New York", and was part of Erie Basin's dry and shipping dock infrastructure ...
This is a list of the largest dry docks in the world, including excavated and floating docks ... Lyttelton Port Company: New Zealand: Lyttelton Lyttelton Dry-Dock ...
Dry Dock 1 is located at Wallabout Bay, on the northeast side of Brooklyn Navy Yard. [20] [304] Completed in 1851, [48] [301] it is the third-oldest dry dock in the United States, behind the dry docks at the Boston and Norfolk Navy Yards. [311] Dry Dock 1 is the smallest of the Navy Yard's dry docks. [301]