An 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...
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Dry dock (redirect from Floating drydock)
sold second-hand. During World War II, the U.S. Navy used such auxiliary floating drydocks extensively to provide maintenance in remote locations. Two examples...
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were used in building the base. Auxiliary floating drydocks were used to repair ships. Three large floating drydocks were stationed at the base. Advance...
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An auxiliary repair dock (ARD) is a type of floating drydock employed by the U.S. Navy, especially during World War II. The Navy commissioned 33 ARD vessels:...
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YFD-2 (redirect from Yard Floating Dry Dock YFD-2)
YFD-2 (Yard Floating Dock-2, USS YFD-2) was an auxiliary floating drydock built for the United States Navy in 1901. The first parts were laid down in...
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USS Ability (AFDL-7) (category Floating drydocks of the United States Navy)
was a small auxiliary floating drydock in the service of the United States Navy. The construction of AFD-7, a one-section, steel, floating dry dock built...
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USS AFDM-2 (redirect from Yard Floating Dock-4)
(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....
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Nikon F-mount camera lenses Admiralty Floating Dock, British Navy floating drydock Auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy Airport/Facility Directory...
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USS AFDB-2 (redirect from Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-2)
ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the US Navy. Advance Base Sectional Dock-2 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-2) was constructed in...
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range from small equipment ships known as Auxiliary repair docks, to the larger Auxiliary floating drydocks, there are also Aircraft repair ships that...
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Naval Base Ulithi (redirect from Ulithi floating hospital)
large Auxiliary floating drydock able to repair battleships USS Richland (YFD-64), Auxiliary floating drydock USS Oak Ridge (ARDM-1), Auxiliary floating drydock...
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(YFD-64), Auxiliary floating drydock USS Oak Ridge (ARDM-1), Auxiliary floating drydock USS Endurance (ARDM-3), Auxiliary floating drydock AFDL-32, a...
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The Auxiliary floating drydock USS YFD-2 was sunk in the attack with destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) in for repair. Dock No. 2 was the only drydock working...
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USS Richland (YFD-64) (category Floating drydocks of the United States Navy)
USS Richland (YFD-64/AFDM-8) was an AFDM-3-class medium auxiliary floating drydock built in California for the U.S. Navy. Originally named USS YFD-64,...
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USS ARD-10 (category ARD-2-class floating drydocks)
USS ARD-10 was an auxiliary repair dock in the service of the United States Navy in World War II as an auxiliary floating drydock, built by Pacific Bridge...
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USS Dewey (YFD-1) (redirect from Drydock Dewey)
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...
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Martinolich Shipbuilding Company leased the Auxiliary Floating Drydock. US Navy ARDC-9, later called, AFDL-42, an Auxiliary Repair Dock, Concrete (ARDC), was sold...
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into place Auxiliary floating drydock of the United States Navy This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Floating dock. If an...
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USS Artisan (category Floating drydocks of the United States Navy)
redesignated as (AFDB-1), was a ten-section, non-self-propelled, large auxiliary floating drydock of the United States Navy. The only U.S. warship with this name...
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USS ABSD-3 (redirect from Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-3)
of nine advance base dock (ABD) sections for the US Navy as an auxiliary floating drydock for World War II. ABSD-3 was delivered to the US Navy in April...
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Arco (ARDM-5) (redirect from ARDM-5-class floating dry dock)
Arco (ARDM-5) is an ARDM-5-class Medium Auxiliary floating drydock for repair and serviced the United States Navy. Arco was laid down on 9 May 1983 by...
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USS ABSD-4 (redirect from Auxiliary Floating Dock Big-4)
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...
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(AE-33) USS Mount Baker (AE-34) USS Kiska (AE-35) Reclassified as Large Auxiliary Floating Dry Docks (AFDB) in August 1946. USS Artisan (ABSD-1) USS ABSD-2 USS...
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USS Waterford (category ARD-2-class floating drydocks)
USS Waterford (ARD-5) was an Auxiliary floating drydock that served in the United States Navy during World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and...
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Los Alamos (AFDB-7) (category Floating drydocks of the United States Navy)
inactive list in March 1946. In August 1946 she was reclassified to auxiliary floating drydock AFDB-7. Disassembled and towed to the east coast, she entered...
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USS White Sands (category ARD-12-class floating drydocks)
a United States Navy auxiliary repair dock in service from 1944 to 1947 and from 1966 to 1974 and an Auxiliary floating drydock. ARD-20 was laid down...
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the 1941 attack. The four drydocks and YFD-2 could not keep up with the demand of the war, a new Auxiliary floating drydock, USS ARD-1 was stationed at...
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USS Oak Ridge (redirect from ARDM-1-class floating dry dock)
Oak Ridge (ARD-19/ARDM-1) was originally a United States Navy Auxiliary floating drydock suitable for dry docking destroyers, submarines and landing craft...
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USS Adept (category Floating drydocks of the United States Navy)
small auxiliary dry dock of the United States Navy Auxiliary floating drydock built for World War II. The construction of one-section, steel, floating Drydock...
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USS Alamogordo (category ARD-12-class floating drydocks)
Alamogordo (ARDM-2) — a non-self-propelled United States Navy Auxiliary floating drydock completed in 1944 at Oakland, California, by the Pacific Bridge...
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