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Floating drydocks of this type were approximately 500-foot (150 m) long and weighted about 5,000 tons. The first auxiliary repair dock was the USS ARD-1, built by the Pacific Bridge Company and completed in September 1934. ARD-1 was 393 feet and 6 inches (119.94 m) long, and could lift 2200 tons.
Admiralty Floating Dock No. 17 - Reykjavík. 2750 tons built at Devonport. Moved to Sydney in 1944 arriving in May 1945 [20] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 18 - Clark Stanfield design, lifting capacity of 2750 tons [21] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 19 - Latterly at Vickers Shipbuilders/VSEL. Scrapped as base of pier at Gills Bay, Caithness.
USS AFDM-2, (former YFD-4), is an AFDM-3-class medium auxiliary floating drydock built in Mobile, Alabama by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company for the U.S. Navy. Originally named USS YFD-4, Yard Floating Dock-4, she operated by Todd Shipyards at New Orleans, Louisiana for the repair of US ships during World War II.
ARD-12-class floating drydocks (8 P) Pages in category "Floating drydocks of the United States Navy" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The 131-foot long stairway, called the “Stigull” ladder, dangles some 2,591 feet above a Norwegian fjord in the small village of Loen, in the north west of the country.
It is the use of spreaders (long treads that extend well past the vertical ropes) in a pilot ladder that distinguishes it from a Jacob's ladder. When not being used, the ladder is stowed away, usually rolled up, rather than left hanging. On late 19th-century warships, this kind of ladder would replace the normal fixed ladders on deck during battle.