A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that...
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Port of Hull (redirect from Hull Central Dry Dock, Hull)
Queen's Dock was later built in this area, and two dry docks remain: North Bridge Dry Dock and No. 1 Dry Dock to the north and south of Queen's Dock basin...
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would otherwise be dry land. There are specific types of dock structures where the water level is controlled: A wet dock or impounded dock is a variant in...
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This is a list of the largest dry docks in the world, including excavated and floating docks. "Dimensions and Capacity". alabamashipyard.com/facilities...
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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...
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Brooklyn Navy Yard (redirect from Cob Dock)
followed by Dry Dock 2 in 1887, Dry Dock 3 in 1897, Dry Dock 4 in 1913, and Dry Docks 5 and 6 in 1941. Dry Docks 1, 5, and 6 are the only dry docks that remain...
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Polhemsdockan, the Polhem dry dock, is situated in the World heritage Örlogsstaden Karlskrona, was built in 1717–1724 and was the first dry dock in Sweden. It is...
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providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more...
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123°04′46″W / 49.309000°N 123.0795°W / 49.309000; -123.0795 Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver...
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and ship-repairing, two more dry docks were built: Dry Dock 3, the second largest dry dock at Mare Island, and Dry Dock 4, used primarily for submarines...
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Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division (redirect from Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company)
corporate name, the shipyard had been called Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company and Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division. Under those three names...
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St Nazaire Raid (section Ramming the dry dock)
Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War. The...
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Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (section Dry docks)
first drydock, which collapsed before opening in 1913. After rebuilding, Dry Dock #1 was opened August 21, 1919. Through these years, the shipyard was just...
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War II that built destroyers and landing craft. Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company was founded July 24, 1917, as a subsidiary of United States Steel...
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Vigor Shipyards (redirect from Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company)
6715; -74.013). William H. Todd purchased the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company in 1916. Robins Dry Dock was founded in 1869, as Handren and Robins. The company...
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USS Texas (BB-35) (section 1988–1990 dry dock period)
Foundation since August 2020. At the end of August 2022 she was moved to a dry dock in Galveston, Texas, to undergo a $60 million repair project. On completion...
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Boston Navy Yard (redirect from Charlestown Naval Dry Dock)
Museum. Dry Dock No. 1 is still used for ship maintenance for Constitution and Cassin Young. In May 2015, Constitution entered the dry dock for three...
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Port of Kolkata (section Dry Dock)
Dock. Dry Dock No. 1, Dry Dock No. 2 and Dry Dock No. 3 of Kidderpore Dock have 184, 138 and 125 kill blocks respectively, and Dry Dock No. 1 and Dry...
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard (section Dry docks and slipways)
Boston and South America, making it the first functional dry dock in the Americas. Dry Dock One, as it is referred to today, is still operational and...
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Seattle and its affiliates. R. J. Lamont, president of the Todd Seattle Dry Docks Inc., of Seattle, is also president of this company; J. A. McEachern,...
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Bay Shipbuilding Company (BSC) is a shipyard and dry dock company in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. As of 2015, Bay Ships was a subsidiary of Fincantieri...
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Singapore Naval Base (redirect from King George VI Graving Dock)
miles (54 km2) and had what was then the largest dry dock in the world, the third-largest floating dock, and enough fuel tanks to support the entire Royal...
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Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (redirect from Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.)
Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company (1917–1989) was a major shipbuilding company in Chester, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River. Its primary product was...
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Hellevoetsluis Dry Dock is a historic double dry dock in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands. It was constructed between 1798 and 1822 under the direction of Jan...
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BAE Systems Electronic Systems (redirect from Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.)
BAE Systems Electronic Systems (ES) is one of three operating groups of BAE Systems Inc., the North American subsidiary of the British global defence contractor...
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Long Beach Naval Shipyard (section Dry Docks)
support its industrial work. Dry dock No. 1 was designated the West Coast nuclear powered aircraft carrier (CVN) emergency dry dock. Long Beach NSY was placed...
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Maryland in 1815. In 1899 the shipyard was renamed Skinner Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company. Also at the site was Malster & Reanie started in 1870 by William...
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Alphabet City, Manhattan (section Dry dock district)
Street, and built an elaborate campus around 10th Street including Dry Dock Bank, Dry Dock Street (present-day Szold Place), and novel marine railways to...
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King George V Graving Dock, also known as No. 7 Dry Dock, is a former dry dock situated in Southampton's Western Docks. It was designed by F.E. Wentworth-Shields...
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