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2. Floating dock (jetty) - Wikipedia

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   A floating dock, floating pier or floating jetty is a platform or ramp supported by pontoons. It is usually joined to the shore with a gangway. It is usually joined to the shore with a gangway. The pier is usually held in place by vertical poles referred to as pilings, which are embedded in the seafloor or by anchored cables . [ 1 ]

3. USS ABSD-4 - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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   YFD-2 The first Yard Floating Dock built in 1901, arriving Pearl Harbor 23 Oct. 1940 from New Orleans Naval Yard. Yard Floating Dock (YFD) was used for many types of floating docks, mostly used for harbor or shipyard use. YFDs normally had little-to-no crew space and were serviced from shore. Some auxiliary Repair Docks were converted to YFDs.

5. Float (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   A pontoon boat is a flattish boat that relies on nautical floats for buoyancy. Common boat designs are a catamaran with two pontoons, or a trimaran with three. [2] In many parts of the world, pontoon boats are used as small vehicle ferries to cross rivers and lakes. [3] An anchored raft-like platform used for diving, often referred to as a pontoon

6. Floating dock - Wikipedia

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   Floating dock (impounded), a development of the half tide dock, where pumps or river flow are used to maintain the dock at around the high tide level of a nearby tidal waterway; Floating dock (jetty), a lightweight quay or jetty, floating on pontoons, that rises and falls with the tide and shipping

7. List of Admiralty floating docks - Wikipedia

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   Admiralty Floating Dock No. 2 - Haslar Creek (HMS Dolphin) from 1906: 1000 tons net capacity, designed to lift submarines; built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim. [5] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 3- Dover, 1912, designed to lift three submarines. 290 ft, 1600 tons [6] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 4 - Medway, 680 ft, 32,000 tons lifting capacity [7]