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2. USS Dewey (YFD-1) - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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   USS Artisan with USS Antelope (IX-109) and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 8 January 1945 Los Alamos (AFDB-7), with a repaired submarine at Holy Loch, Scotland in 1985 YFD-2 The first Yard Floating Dock built in 1901, arriving Pearl Harbor 23 October 1940 from New Orleans Naval Yard USS Pennsylvania in drydock USS Dewey, the second YFD, c. 1906–1907

4. Float (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   A floating dock, floating pier or floating jetty consists of a platform or ramp supported by nautical floats. It is sometimes joined to the shore with a gangway but can be laid out the whole way from the shore to the end.

5. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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   Floating dock № 152 225 36.6 * * [99] Floating dock № 154 225 36.6 * * Floating dock № 5 ZH-B 90.9 23.5 * * Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries: United Kingdom: Belfast: Building Dock 556 93.0 8.4 * * [100] Belfast Dry Dock 335 50.3 12.2 * Able UK: United Kingdom: Teesside 376 233 12.15

6. Dry dock - Wikipedia

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   A downside of floating dry docks is that unscheduled sinkings and off-design dives may take place, as with the Russian dock PD-50 in 2018. [ 21 ] The " Hughes Mining Barge ", or HMB-1, is a covered, floating drydock that is also submersible to support the secret transfer of a mechanical lifting device underneath the Glomar Explorer ship, as ...

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